[Dovecot] help with dovecot installation dependencies

[Oli Schacher]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:00:53 +0800
sunhux G <sunhux at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm on RHES 4.x
> 
> I downloaded 2 dovecot RPM packages from
>  http://packages.sw.be/dovecot/
> 
> dovecot-1.0.13-1.el4.rfx.i386.rpm       13-Nov-2010 22:15  1.8M
> RHEL4 and CentOS-4 x86 32bit
>    and
> dovecot-0.99.13-1.2.el4.test.i386.rpm   21-Feb-2005 16:57  693K
> RHEL4 and CentOS-4 x86 32bit
> 

[...]
>Q1:
>Is the test version rpm  of dovecot reliable?  It's only half the size
>of the other rpm (that I was not able to install)

0.9 / 1.0 : These versions are way out of date and you will probably
have a hard time getting support. I suggest you try the current
versions from atrpms.net We have been using the 2.0 RHEL5 packages by
Axel Thimm for quite some time now and they work flawlessly. 

Link for RHEL4 packages: http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/el4/dovecot/

Maybe this fixes Q2 as well ;-)

Q3: You'll find lots of examples / tutorials in the dovecot wiki :
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/#HOWTOs.2C_examples_and_tutorials

HTH

Oli