[WBEL-users] pop3 service

[Henry Stilmack]

 Nick Bright <nick.bright at gmail.com> wrote:


> 
> I think the point was that he wanted POP3. The instructions I gave
> were relative to WBEL3 though.

Dovecot does POP3, too.

> 
> On 7/21/05, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 13:47 -0400, Ing. Manuel León Moreno wrote:
>>
>>>Hi.
>>>
>>>I also installed cyrus-imap soft of WBEL-4 and had the same problem:
>>>Outloook
>>>asked the pop3 users with a password and when they wrote it (their
>>>normal
>>>password), the pop3 (I left the pop3s protocol disabled) server said
>>>(all the times)
>>>"wrong password".
>>>
>>>Because e-mail, in my job has a 200% priority (which means that I had
>>>no time for making research to solve the situation), I installed the
>>>Red
>>>Hat Linux 7.3 version pop3 service instead of the WBEL-4 cyrus-imapd.
>>>Did some extra work to put it to work and, thanks god, pop3 service
>>>has been
>>>working ok since then.
>>>
>>>It was, certainly, a defeat but I had no option (the alternative was
>>>to reinstall an
>>>older version of Linux and I not wanted to quit WBEL-4).
>>>
>>>I join the request of  gvillaran at pandero.com.pe for any clues.
>>>
>>>Leon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        ______________________________________________________________
>>>        From: Gustavo Villaran [mailto:gvillaran at pandero.com.pe]
>>>        Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 13:52
>>>        To: whitebox-users at beau.org
>>>        Subject: RV: [WBEL-users] pop3 service
>>>
>>>
>>>        i have try to install imap with yum install imap but didnt
>>>        find that package,
>>>        so i install cyrus-imapd and now i found the pop3 server whe i
>>>        try to dowload
>>>        emails but my password is not accepted i dont know why.....
>>
>>-----
>>Lots of configuration is necessary for cyrus-imapd. Dovecot much easier.
>>
>>The payoff is cyrus is a high performance monster. Dovecot is simple
>>minded - much more like uw-imapd
>>
>>Cyrus has a mail list and web site and I strongly suggest that you use
>>those resources for help. Cyrus uses cyrus-sasl for authentication which
>>also must be configured.
>>
>>man cyrus-sasl
>>man imapd.conf
>>
>>Craig
>>
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