[SATLUG] Fedora Core server question on Cyrus-IMAPD

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Fri Dec 24 21:18:59 CST 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 00:24 -0600, Chuck wrote:
> Hey, you guys who run the big servers --
> 
> What do you think of RedHat putting Cyrus in as the default IMAP/POP
> server in the latest versions of Fedora???  Do you think its better? 
> I'm finding that it is DEFINITELY harder to configure and is not setting
> up correctly at install time.  
> 
> I can't get authentication to work correctly.  And you have to love this
> -- running the "pop3test" returns "Authentication failed.  generic
> failure" -- nothing specific, just a generic error.  And the
> /var/log/messages shows "unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2:  No
> such file or directory".
> 
> Has anyone seen this before, or set up the Cyrus IMAP/POP3 server in the
> newer Fedora verions???
> 
> 
> Chuck

I dumped Cyrus and Dovecot and went for Courier IMAP.  Holy COW!!!  It
is fast and super simple to set up.

Thomas



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