On Tue, Dec 09, 2003, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003, Michael Schloh von Bennewitz wrote: >>On Tue, Dec 09, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I just realised that there is no package for Courier-IMAP avaiable in >>> OpenPKG-1.3. >>> >>That's right. We just have the Cyrus IMAP server. It's very good. > > My problem with cyrus-imap is it uses its own private databases, > and it's difficult to use with standard *ix tools. > Actually, I agree. Even though I personally like this feature, it is for many reasons totally unacceptable for others. Then again I suspect that by courier-imap not using its own database it relies on IMAP clients being aligned with real Unix users. This is in other ways nasty.
That's why it would be nice to have both packages, to cover both needs. >>> Can I just execute the courier-imap I build for my "OpenPKG hosting >>> distro" and integrate with Postfix, LDAP, ... from OpenPKG ? >>> >>That would be nice for you to make the Courier IMAP package. It would be a >>good addition to the project. It should make a good companion to the Postfix >>package, just like the Cyrus IMAP server. > > I have one we use here. My build includes whoson support that I > added since I couldn't find other patches. > > ftp://ftp.celestial.com/private/ftp.openpkg.org/release/1.3/SRC/courier-imap-1.5.3-20031124.src.rpm > Thank you very much. You probably helped Alex immediately with that, and possibly I can fummel the package to align it with our standards some day. Regards, Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Development Team, Operations Northern Europe Cable & Wireless Telecommunications Services GmbH
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