Excuse my RH ignorance, I've been working mainly with other distributions the past few years. Why would you care to make your own RPM from the source tarball instead of just compiling it? Is it ease of distribution to a farm of IMAP servers or are you just so used to working with RPM? (just curious...). I was just planning on installing it in user local. Lloyd On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 13:31, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Jul 22, 2004, at 12:54 PM, Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote: > > > I'm in the process of setting up an IMAP server for my company. I'm > > using postfix and am happy with that. I googled unsuccessfully for a > > comparison of the OS IMAP servers that I know of (UW, Cyrus, Courier > > and > > Dovecot). Does anyone have any strong opinions, pointers or advice on > > picking one of the servers? > > I don't have any experience with Dovecot. I prefer Courier based on > the Maildir format and its ease of installation and configuration. Of > course, you'll find just as many people claiming the same of Cyrus. I > appreciate that the Courier developers have seen kindly as to allow > easily rpm building from the source tarball. Starting with Cyrus-SASL > 2.1.18(?), it supports the authdaemond authentication method as well. > > HTH. > > -- > Jason Dixon, RHCE > DixonGroup Consulting > http://www.dixongroup.net > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
