Re: Issue following upgrade tao-1 ===> tao-4

On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 09:38:44PM -0500, fredex wrote:
> I had discovered that myself earlier today, and have been struggling
> since then to figure out how to configure cyrus imap. Found a short
> "how to configure cyrus imap on RHEL 4" in the RH knowledgebase, which
> I just went thru and it worked.
> 
> Why did I pick cyrus? Because it was the first thing I found on the
> tao CDROMs that mentioned imap. I'd have had no clue that dovecot would
> provide imap or pop3 (or that it even had anything to do with mail). If
> I had to go look up every package whose function I did not recognize
> based merely on its name, I'd still be at it. So I chose cyrus imap
> simply because it was the first thing I saw that might do the trick. Found
> it frustrating: hundreds of pages of docs, at least by the time you
> get into the cyrus-sasl docs, too, and nowhere to be found an easy
> (and accurate) "how to configure it to do pop3".
> 
> so, frustrating as it was, cyrus imap is now providing pop3 service and
> my wife is again happy.

You'll be much happier if you just remove cyrus imap and go with
dovecot.  I, too, fought with cyrus at first before I tossed it in the
trash.  It's massive overkill for a small home network and dovecot is a
lot easier.  Pop it in, turn it on, and you're done.

        .../Ed

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