[CentOS] imap pop3 servers

Thu Feb 1 18:40:18 UTC 2007
Kevan Benson <kbenson at a-1networks.com>

On Thursday 01 February 2007 08:24, Doc Schneider wrote:
> chrism at imntv.com wrote:
> > 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)
> >>
> >> Also I did do a search and read the wiki for CentOS and just about
> >> everyplace I could think of.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any and all suggestions.
> >
> > There's a great step-by-step howto on Johnny's website.
> >
> > http://www.hughesjr.com/content/view/14/29/
>
> Thanks for the link but guess I should have said in my original message
> I'm using sendmai. That one is for Postfix. But I can probably gleam
> some info from it.

Here's my default procmail I drop in /etc/procmailrc on systems that need 
Maildir through sendmail:

DROPPRIVS=YES
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/

This will deliver incoming mail to a Maildir off the user's home directory, 
and Dovecot defaults work just fine with that.

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- Kevan Benson
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