On Thursday 19 January 2006 14:32, mlist@safenet-inc.com wrote:
SuSE 10 When setting up e-mail handling in YaST > Network Services, the dialog includes a setting for handing off mail to Cyrus IMAP. Actually, on my system, Cyrus was in a scrollable pick-list... with one member... implying that the mail could potentially be handed to other types of server or app.
My question is why is Cyrus the only choice? I've got nothing against Cyrus, I just wonder why a pick-list would not have a few other choices (especially since I basically took the "install almost everything" option when installing SuSE 10).
[snip] This list is not meant to give you a choice of servers to use, but a choice of ways to deliver mail to mail boxes or directories. As Jim F. says also in reply, Cyrus works differently from other imap servers, using its own file system (placed under /var/spool/imap here). So it has to have its own entry in the list. The other two entries on the list cover everything else - whether uw-imap or courier-imap (or maybe dovecote) or whatever. Any of them should work fine with procmail, for example. A procmail entry in this little list also can mean "everything else except for Cyrus". Cyrus won't work with procmail, I believe. In fact it has its own procmail-like filtering system called sieve. :) Fish