setting up my own imap server

[Stephen Adler]

Just as a postscript to this thread, I've setup dovecot. It's prefect 
for what I need. Simple to setup, give me imaps service and I'm done 
configuring. Thanks for the help guys.

Cheers. Steve.


Matt Shields wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2007 2:35 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Dec 17, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Matt Shields wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Dec 17, 2007 1:08 PM, Stephen Adler <adler at stephenadler.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi guys!
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to setup my own imapd server. I used to do this, but one
>>>> day,
>>>> redhat/fedora changed their default imapd system over to cyrus or
>>>> something like that which was way more compliated to setup,
>>>>         
>> RHEL5's default imap server is cyrus, but dovecot is also included.
>>
>>     
>>>> so I dropped
>>>> the idea of using my own imapd server. But I'm in a situation now
>>>> that I
>>>> would like to get one going again. Any suggestions as to how best
>>>> setup
>>>> an imap server on a fedora or redhat system?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers. Steve.
>>>>         
>>> Go with what you're comfortable with.  But I would stay away from
>>> Fedora since the lifecycle is around 6 months.
>>>       
>> No it isn't. Its more like 13 months. Each release N is supported
>> until one month after the release of release N + 2. In other words,
>> Fedora 8 will be supported unit 1 month after Fedora 10 is out. I run
>> my own mail server on Fedora (dovecot + postfix + maia mailguard). Of
>> course, Fedora is a little less scary to me, given who my employer
>> is... :) CentOS is probably indeed a better recommendation for the
>> less adventurous.
>>
>>     
>
> Oops, forgot to add Dovecot with Postfix.  Both are very simple to
> configure.  As said earlier, check the howtoforge.com website they
> have a step by step tutorial.
>
>   


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