upgrading to fedora core 2

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:50:30 -0300, Alexandre <surak> escreveu:

> Much probably, as it's possible to migrate even from rh7 to FC1. There
> is a dependency removal which scares me, though. As I use squirrelmail
> as my webmail system, and seems that they're removing imap support on
> fedora, I will have to stick with fc1 till it's resolved...

You dont need to worry. The imap server that's being removed is the UW-imap server due to some license issues.. Dovecot and cyrus-imapd are available . I've set up a full mail server on FC1 using squirrelmail , postfix and dovecot on my home machine (just for practice) and it worked perfectly. Squirrelmail has on its configuration some special tricks when dealing with certain imap servers.. For dovecot , just set it as "other" under imap server type.. from the config.pl script:

Each IMAP server has its own quirks.  As much as we tried to stick
to standards, it doesn't help much if the IMAP server doesn't follow
the same principles.  We have made some work-arounds for some of
these servers.  If you would like to use them, please select your
IMAP server.  If you do not wish to use these work-arounds, you can
set this to "other", and none will be used.
    cyrus      = Cyrus IMAP server
    uw         = University of Washington's IMAP server
    exchange   = Microsoft Exchange IMAP server
    courier    = Courier IMAP server
    macosx     = Mac OS X Mailserver
    other      = Not one of the above servers

from the rpm package on FC1: 
capeta:/var/www/yum/1/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS->rpm -qRp squirrelmail-1.4.0-1.noarch.rpm
/bin/sh  
/usr/bin/env  
/usr/sbin/sendmail  
aspell  
config(squirrelmail) = 1.4.0-1
httpd  
httpd  
perl  
perl  
perl(Cwd)  
perl(IO::Socket)  
php >= 4.0.4
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
tmpwatch >= 2.8

So imap is not an explicit dependency ( mainly because you can set up squirrelmail on a dedicated machine , and the mail server is on other server , just like we have here...)

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Pedro Fernandes Macedo