Sendmail & Cyrus-imapd

[GPL]

On Apr 5, 2005 12:24 PM, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 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 create or perhaps my reading  material was outdated?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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Thats right, I know I have read this somewhere. Thanks for the memory jog.
I'll look into dovecot. Thanks for the tip. I would still like to
research both. Have to start somewhere learning it somehow. Online
documentation is what I am researching now. Also, since I have the
server locked up in a closet I am mainly configuring via the CLI.