please do not axe dovecot. it's the first imap server that runs out of the box without major trouble. On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:07:27 -0500, Chuck R. Anderson <cra@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 12:09:44AM -0500, Eric Warnke wrote: > > dovecot/cryus - IMAP server cyrus does seem more like a specialty > > package when compared to the simplcity and utility of dovecot. OTOH > > cyrus is maintained for RHEL and other packages depends on cyrus-sasl. > > The community definatly appears to favor keeping dovecot and letting > > cyrus be religated to extras. > > If cyrus-sasl can't be separated easily from cyrus IMAP, then it needs > to stay. sasl is an authentication library that is needed by many > components of LDAP/Kerberos authentication strategies.