[CentOS] Could not connect to host box.domain.tld

Fri Jan 25 15:27:33 UTC 2008
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 16:09 +0100, mouss wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 22:46 +0100, mouss wrote:
> >   
> >> Craig White wrote:
> >>     
> >>> well, the opportune time to switch is probably when you are starting to
> >>> set up a new mail server.
> >>>
> >>> Dovecot is mostly featureless POP3/IMAP
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Come on. is it holy war time again? should I shoot over cyrus software 
> >> now or should we keep this list clean? If you like cryus software, I am 
> >> happy for you. If you've done a an serious/objective comparative study, 
> >> put it a on a web page (and ask for comments). Debating this here is not 
> >> constructive nor fair.
> >>     
> > ----
> > why is it not constructive? 
> 
> because expereience shows that such debates should be conducted offlist, 
> quietly and with arguments. Otherwise, proponents of each side jump on 
> the wagon at every opportunity to reply to what they feel is an attack 
> against their "baby". you know the story, so I won't annoy you by 
> repeating it.
> 
> anyway, for it to be constructive, it should start on the right track. 
> calling dovecot featureless and listing features that are actually 
> supported by dovecot isn't a good start :)
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probably not, but it seemed fair once I got into cyrus-imapd and saw all
of the bonus options that I never had in uw-imapd. I suppose that
dovecot has virtual user features (without maildir) and LDAP support and
you could probably shell script some of the other stuff to get around
the lack of built-in support.
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> > Aren't dovecot and cyrus-imapd the only
> > pop3/imap servers bundled with CentOS? Would not users of CentOS benefit
> > from the discussion?
> >   
> 
> courier is another choice.
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courier isn't included in upstream or CentOS

Craig