Hi. What imapd can you recommend for minimum configuration and maintenance (no Cyrus)? This is for a small shop, so no hard performance requirements. I'd prefer one where I don't have to build my own packages (no Courier, unless packages exist). Thanks. Morten
On Sunday 23 October 2005 03:40, Morten wrote:> Hi. What imapd can you recommend for minimum configuration and > maintenance (no Cyrus)? This is for a small shop, so no hard performance > requirements. > > I'd prefer one where I don't have to build my own packages (no Courier, > unless packages exist).cyrus is very easy to set, but if you don't like to use cyrus then dovecot is the other alternative :) -- Black Hand Amiga Addicts Powered by CentOS, KDE 3.4.1 and lots of GNU Force
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 10:40 +0200, Morten wrote:> Hi. What imapd can you recommend for minimum configuration and > maintenance (no Cyrus)? This is for a small shop, so no hard performance > requirements. > > I'd prefer one where I don't have to build my own packages (no Courier, > unless packages exist). > > Thanks. > > Morten >Morten, I have never used imapd...I just always heard was such a bear to set up and have just used dovecot to get the mail around internally. John Rose> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Morten wrote:> I'd prefer one where I don't have to build my own packages (no Courier, > unless packages exist).I just installed the latest courier-imapd today and it's really easy to build the packages (this is all from memory, so there may be slight typos): 1) log in as root and install rpm-devel (if it's not already installed) 2) 'su - user' [su to a "normal" user] 3) echo "%_topdir /home/user/rpm" > .rpmmacros [replace 'user' with your username] 4) mkdir -p rpm/BUILD rpm/RPMS/i386 rpm/SOURCES rpm/SPECS rpm/SRPMS 5) download courier-imapd-XXX.bz2 and courier-authlib-XXX.bz2 6) rpmbuild -ta courier-authlib-XXX.bz2 [ it will probably ask for requirements like postgresql and mysql, just 'yum install' them for the build, you can remove them later] 7) as root, rpm -Uvh ~user/rpm/RPMS/i386/courier-authlib-XXX.rpm [and the devel package too] 8) back as the user, build imap with: rpmbuild -ta courier-imapd-XXX.bz2 (you may need other packages to build this too, like fam-devel, just install them to make it happy, and remove them later) 9) as root, rpm -Uvh ~user/rpm/RPMS/i386/courier-imapd-XXX.rpm 10) start it up: /etc/init.d/courier-authlib start /etc/init.d/courier-imapd start If your users are all normal system users and you don't need any fancy mysql/ldap lookups, you should be all set. Going this route makes it really easy to keep updated and you don't have to wait for package maintainers. --Ajay
Morten wrote:> > Hi. What imapd can you recommend for minimum configuration and > maintenance (no Cyrus)? This is for a small shop, so no hard performance > requirements. > > I'd prefer one where I don't have to build my own packages (no Courier, > unless packages exist).Well, then use Dovecot. Comes standard with CentOS. Although, Cyrus also needs minimal configuration and maintance, and has clear advantages even for small shops.
Morten wrote:> > Hi. What imapd can you recommend for minimum configuration and > maintenance (no Cyrus)? This is for a small shop, so no hard > performance requirements. > > I'd prefer one where I don't have to build my own packages (no > Courier, unless packages exist). > > Thanks. > > Morten >Courier is the default imapd server on Gralinux AS 3, so there is rpms for it. You can intall the last Centos3 on your server and take the courier-imapd rpm from gralinux here -> http://www.gralinux.org/gralinux/AS3/i686/RPMS.main/courier-imap-3.0.8-2gral.3AS.i686.rpm For informations, this version is in production from 335 days ago (the process of courier-imap ais 335 days old) and there is 20 users. Accounts size is near 1.5 Go per user, so .. maybe it's a good way to use courier-imap ?? Regards
Morten wrote:> > Hi. What imapd can you recommend for minimum configuration and > maintenance (no Cyrus)? This is for a small shop, so no hard performance > requirements.If you want something easy - use dovecot. yum install it and it just works out of the box with very little config required. If you want something with a great feature set, excellent performance and near zero admin - try Cyrus-Imapd. And in relative terms its much much easier to setup than Courier, considering its just a straight yum install. Since you did not specify it, I presume you are using CentOS 4. - K -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
Dovecot. We started using it a while back, and it's been worry free, zero administration, and good performance, even with hundreds of MB of email. We're using IMAP/TLS so that we have decent security and multiple-point availability for executives and sales staff, who are frequently mobile. Now, we have backups of all email, they can get their messages anywhere, and we have decent security. Works good, hard to beat the price, too! =) -Ben On Sunday 23 October 2005 01:40, Morten wrote:> > Hi. What imapd can you recommend for minimum configuration and > maintenance (no Cyrus)? This is for a small shop, so no hard performance > requirements. > > I'd prefer one where I don't have to build my own packages (no Courier, > unless packages exist). > > Thanks. > > Morten > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978