I've unmerged uw-imap and emerged dovecot. I've got dovecot running, but it still won't take my password when I enter it in evolution. I haven't messed with the /etc/dovecot.conf file because I don't know what I'm doing. I used uw-imap before on my FC1 box because it installed that by default and it only required a little configuration alteration to work out-of-the-box. Do I need to alter /etc/dovecot.conf to get my mail server to work? I opened it up in vim and the opening comment said that I didn't need to uncomment any of the lines except for the paths. Are these paths the default paths for an emerged dovecot (Are the default paths correct for my system)?
--- Maarten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 27 February 2005 23:45, Michael Sullivan > wrote: > > I am attempting to set up uw-imap on my server box > > (bullet.espersunited.com). I emerged it, went > into > > /etc/xinetd.d and modified the imap and pop3 files > so > > that they looked more like their counterparts from > my > > FC1 install the was previously on the box. I > > restarted xinetd. I opened up evolution and set > up > > the [EMAIL PROTECTED] account. It would > not > > let me log onto the IMAP server with my username > and > > password, yet I can ssh over there successfully > with > > the same username and password. I cannot telnet > to > > port 143 of the server box, nor to port 110. Is > there > > further setup required? > > Two things: > > 1) Drop uw-imap like a hot potato and run dovecot or > courier-imap instead > (you'll thank me later). Dovecot can use mbox > format, courier uses Maildir. > UW-imap is not only slow, but is widely regarded as > one of the worse imap > servers out there, if I'm allowed to be just blunt. > > 2) In such cases, running 'netstat -an' can be > helpful in determining what's > [not] listening to the network on your box. > > Maarten > > -- > bash-2.05b$ emerge ncy > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Sign up for Fantasy Baseball. http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list