Re: [Dovecot] Understanding Sockets

2012-12-22 Thread Reindl Harald
because they are too lazy to lern how tu buld packages for their distribution which is at least for redhat-based distribution trivial it is no rocket science to take the existing source package, replace the tarball and after change some lines in the SPEC-fle rebuild on the other hand - Ubuntu

Re: [Dovecot] Understanding Sockets

2012-12-22 Thread Patrick Lists
On 12/22/2012 09:50 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: because they are too lazy to lern how tu buld packages for their distribution which is at least for redhat-based distribution trivial Calling people lazy is a bit over the top now isn't it? The reason that organizations use Red Hat RHEL is, among

Re: [Dovecot] Understanding Sockets

2012-12-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.12.2012 12:16, schrieb Patrick Lists: On 12/22/2012 09:50 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: because they are too lazy to lern how tu buld packages for their distribution which is at least for redhat-based distribution trivial Calling people lazy is a bit over the top now isn't it? The reason

Re: [Dovecot] Understanding Sockets

2012-12-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.12.2012 12:16, schrieb Patrick Lists: On 12/22/2012 09:50 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: because they are too lazy to lern how tu buld packages for their distribution which is at least for redhat-based distribution trivial Calling people lazy is a bit over the top now isn't it? The reason

Re: [Dovecot] Understanding Sockets

2012-12-21 Thread Tim Smith
Thanks Ben, I'm using an Ubuntu Server OS (10.04) and it seems that the latest package they provide is 1.2.9. Do you know if anyone has had any success getting a Dovecot 2 package on this Ubuntu distro and how they went about it (Not comfortable compiling sources at this point!!)? Tim On

Re: [Dovecot] Understanding Sockets

2012-12-21 Thread Daniel Parthey
Hi Tim, Tim Smith wrote: I'm using an Ubuntu Server OS (10.04) and it seems that the latest package they provide is 1.2.9. Do you know if anyone has had any success getting a Dovecot 2 package on this Ubuntu distro and how they went about it (Not comfortable compiling sources at this

Re: [Dovecot] Understanding Sockets

2012-12-21 Thread Tim Smith
I'm a bit green around the gills with this kind of thing. I download the original source at http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/precise/mail/dovecot And the Pigeonhole source at http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/download.html This is where I got stuck really - I wasn't sure how to integrate the

Re: [Dovecot] Understanding Sockets

2012-12-21 Thread Noel Butler
Why are people shit scared of abandoning these antiquated distro versions and using the source On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 08:37 +, Tim Smith wrote: Thanks Ben, I'm using an Ubuntu Server OS (10.04) and it seems that the latest package they provide is 1.2.9. Do you know if anyone has had

[Dovecot] Understanding Sockets

2012-12-20 Thread Tim Smith
Hi, Just trying to consolidate my knowledge of Dovecot and I want to understand various things rather than just key out lines of config in dovecot.conf with the hope of it working. What I wanted to clarify is my understanding the socket listen section of the config file. From my limited

Re: [Dovecot] Understanding Sockets

2012-12-20 Thread Ben Morrow
At 10PM + on 20/12/12 Tim Smith wrote: Just trying to consolidate my knowledge of Dovecot and I want to understand various things rather than just key out lines of config in dovecot.conf with the hope of it working. What I wanted to clarify is my understanding the socket listen