Sam Drinkard wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 02:46 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > >>qpopper has a continuing, very doubtful history regarding security/bug >>issues. Each new release comes with a major bug (often a new buffer >>overflow). You better avoid that application. Too because it is not >>provided by CentOS. Use dovecot - quick, easy to configure and shipping >>with CentOS base. >> >>Comment on your question about the MTA and MSA services by Sendmail: if >>you explicitly set DAEMON_OPTIONS for the MSA or TLSMTA you too have to >>explicitly set them for the MTA - else the MTA is disabled. >>You can easily play around with it: selective activate and deactivate >>DAEMON_OPTIONS for the services in sendmail.mc, rebuild the sendmail.cf >>from it (make -C /etc/mail) and then look at the results by running >>"grep DaemonPortOptions /etc/mail/sendmail.cf". >> >>Alexander >> >> >> > Advice taken.. I did some extensive searching of the archived > discussions, and did not find any one thing that related to setup of > dovecot, nor could I find any kind of document describing setup of > sendmail/cyrus-imapd. Even google did not return what I'd consider > fair game unless I were installing from sources, which I'm not. That > said, is there a document that describes setup of dovecot? All I > really need is pop, as there is only one or two mail accounts on the > machine. > > Sam > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > I don't use dovecot but here's what I found: [root at mavis ~]# locate dovecot | grep doc /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11 /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/NEWS /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/configuration.txt /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/multiaccess.txt /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/securecoding.txt /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/mkcert.sh /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/dovecot-openssl.cnf /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/mail-storages.txt /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/COPYING.LGPL /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/auth.txt /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/README /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/index.txt /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/TODO /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/design.txt /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/COPYING /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/INSTALL /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/nfs.txt /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/ChangeLog [root at mavis ~]# less /usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.11/configuration.txt (And NO, I don't usually frolic about as root. I've been doing some recovery from a recent disaster.)