I concur with what Gordon has to say. I think that you may want to look into
that. I also feel that you would indeed find it easier to configure, aka minimal
work with another mail software such as Exim, Postfix or Qmail. They are much
easier to configure less work to maintain and great support for them. Exim
especially.
Cheers,
Aly.
Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 12:02, daniel wrote:
>
>>| Why didn't you just install Redhat's pop3 server rpm (actually it's the
>>| imap rpm). It the UW pop3 package and would have saved you the trouble of
>>| building it and perhaps not including something needed?
>>
>>'cause i'm "practicing" for a linux build on a machine that won't be big
>>enough for a redhat install. besides, i want to learn how to do things from
>>source and not be dependant of pre-made packages. it breeds problems just
>>like this one where i don't know what kind of authorisation my machine is
>>using and should use for pop3.
>
>
> What constitutes "not big enough"? Before you spend too much time on
> this project, you should probably realize that the time you're going to
> put into getting sendmail and IMAP on this small machine is going to
> cost you more than the system requirements of Red Hat Linux.
>
> I'd also suggest that you re-examine your assertion that pre-made
> packages breed problems "like this one". While true from a point of
> view, the whole picture is bigger than that. Building an OS (or even
> just the services on one) from source requires a great deal of
> understanding about how the system functions, and how *everything* is
> supposed to work together. A good system engineer knows more than how
> to make things work: he knows how to make things work *right*.
>
> I don't mean to discourage you from learning... I just think you're not
> starting in the right place. Get Red Hat's src.rpm for the imap
> package, and read the spec file. Read the patches. Understand what
> they've had to change to make imap work properly on Linux, and how they
> go about their build process.
>
>
>
>
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