Re: pop3 server on RHEL ES 4

[Steve Buehler <steve ibapp com>]

Thank You Brian, Jos and Jay for your replies.  I have RHEL ES 4 
systems that I had email turned on to start with and never had to 
mess with them.  Now I know the solution was Dovecot.  Once I knew 
that, everything is working perfectly now.

Thank You
Steve

At 12:01 PM 7/27/2005, you wrote:
> 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.