[CentOS] imap pop3 servers

Thu Feb 1 15:55:14 UTC 2007
Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Doc Schneider wrote:

> I'm doing a complete upgrade of a server which I was using uw-imap 
> for the imap/pop4 daemons.(This was an old RH 7.2 system and has 
> been upgraded to CentOS 4.4 64bit) I notice there isn't an rpm at 
> any of the repositories for this. I do pop before smpt for the 
> remote users I have and also use procmail for calling spamc from 
> SpamAssassin.
>
> Is there some place I can get uw's imap or do I need to settle for 
> using something like Dovecot? (Which doesn't support procmail 
> AFAICT)

Procmail and Dovecot work fine together, since procmail knows how to 
write Maildir files. The difference in procmail recipes is subtle but 
easy to recognize:

Here's my traditional (mbox) recipe:

   :0:
   * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
   spam

And here's the Maildir version:

   :0
   * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
   .spam/

The trailing slash and leading dot are the key indicators, though it's 
the slash that tells procmail to use Maildir format.

If you'd like a .src.rpm of UW-IMAP 2006d, let me know. I'll send you 
a copy of mine, and you can tweak/build it as you like.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> www.madboa.com