upgrading to fedora core 2

[Joel Jaeggli]

dovecot is substantially lower in overhead than uw imap as well... It's 
really a big win for imap as far as I'm concerned...

joelja

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:

> 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...)
> 
> --------------------
> Pedro Fernandes Macedo
> 
> 
> 

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