Re: pop3 server on RHEL ES 4

[Jay Lee <jlee pbu edu>]

Steve Buehler wrote:
> I am just now getting around to installing a pop3 server on a RHEL ES 4 
> box.  I went to my rhn account and found that "imap" is not for RHEL ES 
> 4 now.  Instead it looks like cyrus-imapd is what I would have to 
> install.  Well, I installed it and get messages saying the password is 
> incorrect for the mailbox account.  The password is NOT incorrect and I 
> can log into it with mutt directly on the server.  Anybody have any 
> suggestions as to how I am suppose to setup an POP3 server now on RHEL 
> ES 4?  Is cyrus-imapd what I am suppose to be using?

Cyrus is the "industrial" imap server, you'd really only want to use it 
for a dedicated IMAP server.  Cyrus does not use shell accounts instead 
using it's own internal user database.  If you want to provide POP3 for 
your shell users, use dovecot and enable the POP3 service in the conf file.

Jay
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Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
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