Sendmail & Cyrus-imapd

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Apr 5 16:24:32 UTC 2005


GPL wrote:
> Hi folks, I'm starting my first jump into working with a Linux mail
> server. So far from what I have read I need sendmail for SMTP and some
> other service for POP/IMAP. From what I see the thing to use with
> fedora is Cyrus-imapd. My goal is to run a mail server for a handful
> of people in a non mission critical environment that can be accessed
> by outlook/thunderbird, etc.. A learning experience mainly.
> 
> I have found this by searching the list:
> http://www.bsodmike.com/articles/sendmail&cyrus.php
> 
> Can anyone suggest links to online reading I can use for this new
> mission I am on?
> 
> By the way, in one piece of documentation I was reading for Cyrus
> there was mention of accessing the /etc/inetd.conf file. However on my
> FC3 install that is no where to be seen. Is it something I need to
> create or perhaps my reading  material was outdated?

Fedora uses xinetd (configuration files in /etc/xinetd.d) rather than 
the traditional /etc/inetd.conf file as it is more flexible.

cyrus will be a big learning curve for you, especially given the 
relatively simple nature of what you're trying to set up, so I'd suggest 
trying dovecot as a simpler POP/IMAP server instead.

Paul.




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