[Dovecot] Newbie on Fedora 5

[Marc Perkel]

It's been a while but I remember switching over being fairly easy. Just 
read the config file and set up all the setting so it can fild the 
mailboxes and authenticate. The config is very readable.

Yudhvir Singh Sidhu wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I want to transition from Merak to Postfix/Dovecot. I am not sure how 
> to begin. I have been reading the different Howtos - cocktail of 
> services to Postfix like ClamAV, Spamassissin, Greylisting, Jamm, 
> SquirrelMail.
>
> The thing is that I want stable IMAP mail. Here is what I want to do:
> a.  Stand alone linux box for email only - 25 users
> b.  provide IMAP and web
> c.  provide SSL authentication, spam filtering and virus checking.
> d.  I would perfer to setup flat file, or unix based SIMPLE 
> authentication scheme.
> e.  Current users are on windows and are popping mail. Although we 
> have LDAP, can we have another LDAP server which lives with existing 
> server?
> f.  I have Fedora 5 installed. I have Dovecot, Postfix, Cyrus-SASL 
> installed. As well as webmin to manage it all.
>
> Any suggestions to get running quickly?
>
> h.  I need to preserve the popped mail sitting in user Outlook clients.
> --Yudhvir Singh Sidhu, 3-4039
>