setting up a pop and imap server

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 03.12.2004 schrieb Hilkiah Lavinier um 4:03:

> I work for an ISP and we are currently running RH7.2 with imap-2000c  
> and sendmail 8.11.xx.  We are thinking of upgrading to a fedora release 
> (2 or 3).  By default, fedora 3 does not ship with the washington imap 
> server, instead it comes with cyrus-imapd.  The following pretty much 
> sums up our needs:

Right, FC2 and FC3 come with Cyrus-IMAPd packaged (though the default
IMAP server is dovecot). I prefer Cyrus-IMAPd because of it's
capabilities.

> 1) we need our users to be able to login and set their own passwords 
> (currently we use usermin for this)

How to realize this depends on the auth method you use. If staying with
system users which the uw-imapd uses, you can keep your usermin tool.
But Cyrus-IMAPd is able to run in sealed mode too as it uses SASL.

> 2) we need both pop and imap services

Of course no problem.

> 3) we intend to use smtp auth in the not too distant future

No topic for the IMAP/POP3 side.

> 4) we would like to implement some sort of quota system where sendmail 
> (or whatever MTA) will not accept more mail once a user's mailbox is filled

Cyrus-IMAPd supports mailbox quota by his own.

> Would it be recommended to go through the hassles of configuring 
> cyrus-imapd?  If so, what the some of the advantages over some of the 
> less complicated pop3/imap servers.

It is not that difficult to set Cyrus-IMAPd up. Of course you will have
to read the documentation. Do you know any other IMAP/POP3 server which
handles mailbox quota by his own and does not rely on filesystem quota?

> HL

Alexander


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