JUAN ERNESTO FLORES BELTRAN wrote:
Hans wrote:
"you'd need a separate IMAP server (which has nothing to do with postfix, which is a MTA). I can recommend cyrus, but if you only have one account and one folder to check, it's probably way easier to setup uw-imapd instead"
what are the differences between cyrus and uw-imapd?? is cyrus more complex to setup than uw.imapd?? what other differences??
Can i read and send mails from remote machines by setting up uw-imapd?? any howto link ??
thanks for your answers regards.-
Hi Juan Ernesto, Not to confuse the issue, but there are at least 4 good IMAP servers you can choose in Suse. uw-imap Courier Cyrus Dovecot I've been using uw-imap on my production email server for a couple of years. It is easy to set up, and as Hans wrote, it will read your emails in the default /var/spool/mail directory. Courier does the same. Many people on this list use courier, but for some reason I've had problems setting it up. In Suse, the uw-imap package is compiled to only accept login connections encrypted over SSL. This is really not a problem, but a benefit. You can find a very good how to here (written for suse 8.2 but still valid) http://www.davidkrider.com/suse_8.2.php Many people say setting up Cyrus is a bit more difficult, but in suse it is not. I set it up on a test system in a very short time frame, suse make it easy thru Yast. I don't remember the link, but search the archives for a post from Anders Johansson probably back in May or so of this year. Dovecot was pretty easy to set up too, it can be configured to accept imap (nonencrypted port 143) connections, imaps (encrypted port 993) connections, and can handle both mbox and maildir folders. I've been meaning to change my production box from uw-imap to probably Cyrus, but haven't gotten around to it yet. If this isn't enough information to confuse you, have a look at this article... http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6998 If you are just supporting a few users, you probably won't need to set up the LDAP authentication part if this article, but it does give a good overview of different imap servers and setup. Hope this helps. Jim