[CentOS] imap pop3 servers -- SOLVED

Tue Feb 6 12:52:39 UTC 2007
Doc Schneider <doc at maddoc.net>

chrism at imntv.com wrote:
> Black Hand wrote:
>> On Thursday 01 February 2007 10:40:21 am Doc Schneider wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> 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)
>>>     
>>
>> i normally prefer to migrate to cyrus instead than dovecot. The 
>> problems that i will not have in migration i will have in production.
>>
>> Now, in two productions systems, migrated from CentOS3/RHEL3 to 
>> CentOS4, we
>> copy all mbox files and the files in the $HOME directory files that 
>> use uwimap, and did use the uwimap packages fron CentOS3 inside CentOS 
>> 4. We only need to install the gcc compatibility package, and manually 
>> install the uwimap rpms. One system is running more than a year and 
>> without problems (the migration to cyrus was retarded because the 
>> system is working too well) the other system was migrated to cyrus a 
>> month ago, but in the eight months in operations works flawlessly
>>   
> 
> I would be interested in hearing what those problems were.  We've been 
> using Dovecot without incident.  It is my understanding that the UW imap 
> stuff isn't as well supported anymore which is why we migrated to 
> Dovecot a year or so ago.
> 
> Cheers,

I guess I should have posted back to the list that I did end up using 
Dovecot and also configured and am using SMTP AUTH. The users who are on 
this new server used to use pop before SMTP but that ended up being a 
real pain to get going for Dovecot.

I just have a couple issues or could be non-issues to work out trying to 
get Sendmails SMTP AUTH to pass off spam to SpamAssassin without 
generating a authenication failure. Although it does appear to be 
handing off the spam to SA. At least, I'm seeing these errors in the 
maillog but also am seeing spam being caught. So like I said it could be 
a non-issue.

FWIW: I'm using the Dovecot that comes packaged with CentOS 4.4 64 bit.

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