mail setup recommendation

[Roger Grosswiler]

> Am Mi, den 05.10.2005 schrieb Søren Neigaard um 15:33:
>
>> Im reading and reading now, and i think it will be more easy to start
>> with a cyrus install at the same time.
>>
>> What packages would you recommend me to install via yum for this? There
>> are LOADS of packages for cyrus it seems... I would like only to allow
>> SSL/TLS authentication, so what packages would I need for that (do i
>> need devel also, and what is the name for the main cyrus yum package)?
>
>> Søren
>
> You have to distinguish between Cyrus-SASL and Cyrus-IMAPd. Once you do
> that you quickly see that the Cyrus-IMAPd server does not come with so
> much packages. What you mainly need is
>
> IMAPd:
> cyrus-imapd
> cyrus-imapd-utils
>
> SASL:
> cyrus-sasl
> cyrus-sasl-plain [if you need to serve for "things" like Outlook or OE]
> cyrus-sasl-md5 [if you want to provide MD5 mechs, i.e. Thunderbird
> handles this]
>
> -devel packages are only needed for cases where you compile applications
> which links against another application. In this setup case you don't
> need to compile, so you don't need -devel packages.
>
do not forget the perl-Cyrus -package, this is where cyradm is shipped
with ;-)

Roger