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I have tried using urpmi to install cryus, courier, Dovecot, etc and I cannot get any of these working correctly. So have uninstalled everything (postfix, procmail, etc) and Im coming to you for advice.
I was able to send and receive mail but after installing squirrelmail I learned that I needed IMAP... so here I am. Is there any particular order I should install everything and which is the easiest to configure via urmpi?
you probably need to start by working out exactly what you need and then piuck a product that matches that need.
They all have there strenghts and weaknesses
personally I use courier-imap at home and work (with qmail for the MTA at work and postfix at home) so I can use maildir's.
As far as the install goes you will want to install the MTA first, so postfix or whatever and get that running. Once you have confirmed that them move on to courier, dovecot, whatever. finally look at your webmail solution last. I use phpgroupware now for webmail, but hav eused squirrel in the past.
either way remember, the mta actually sends and receives your mail, the imap client is simply a way for you to access and read that mail, and the webmail clients typically just hang off that.
Did you get your IMAP server going? I am in the same boat here trying to figure out why IMAP is not responding. POSTFIX is working, POP is working, PHP is working, but IMAP does not appear to be and thus squirrelmail either. Imap is installed via the disk RPM and services says it should load as needed. I have not had luck getting uw/courier/cyris to compile without fighting the million dependency march.
Do you recall what you did to get this going? None of the docs are helping me as of yet.
I'm running imap in MDK 10.1 w/o problems.
Install postfix, procmail and imap-2004 through urpmi and make sure imap's not disabled in /etc/xinetd.d/imap
i run gentoo so in my case the installation is pretty straight forward - no dep issues. I run courier-imap at work and at home - have been doing so for quite a few years. I found the install to be fairly straight forward but then i was able to do it on a fresh system each time. I guess first time round it may have been a bit tricker (but i think that was on a RH 5.1 system so i doubt that experience would be of much use even if i could remeber clearly).
Sounds like bunnadik has an answer for you there though.
What are you using for POP?
courier has its own pop client, not sure about the others - are you using maildirs?
is courier acrually running? can you see its process with ps
is the imap port listening (you can check with netstat or nmap i guess)
bunnadiks suggestion to check xinetd is a good one as well, an easy trap to fall into.
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