Hi all,

I started the imap server included in slackware 10.0 and it works, however I
can not find where to configure it. No imapd.conf. Are there options for
this server and if so, where can i configure them.

Iwan

I w a n wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I started the imap server included in slackware 10.0 and it works, however I
> can not find where to configure it. No imapd.conf. Are there options for
> this server and if so, where can i configure them.

Slackware ships with UW Imapd - http://www.washington.edu/imap/

IIRC, there are few configurations that can be changed. And what can be
changed can only be done a compile time. So you'd have to grab the
source + compile with different options.

UW Imapd is easy to use, but is not flexible, and isn't known for
performance. If you need flexibility and/or performance you're probably
better off with a different Imap server. Dovecot and Cyrus come to mind.

--
- Matt -

thanx....
I will throw it off and get me a better IMAP server


"Matt Payton" <mattpayton@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:fhhi5d.bf7.ln@stewie.taternuts.home...
> I w a n wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I started the imap server included in slackware 10.0 and it works,
however I
> > can not find where to configure it. No imapd.conf. Are there options for
> > this server and if so, where can i configure them.
>
> Slackware ships with UW Imapd - http://www.washington.edu/imap/
>
> IIRC, there are few configurations that can be changed. And what can be
> changed can only be done a compile time. So you'd have to grab the
> source + compile with different options.
>
> UW Imapd is easy to use, but is not flexible, and isn't known for
> performance. If you need flexibility and/or performance you're probably
> better off with a different Imap server. Dovecot and Cyrus come to mind.
>
> --
> - Matt -

Le Sat, 07 May 2005 17:38:42 +0200, I w a n a écrit*:

> "Matt Payton" <mattpayton@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:fhhi5d.bf7.ln@stewie.taternuts.home...
>> I w a n wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I started the imap server included in slackware 10.0 and it works,
> however I
>> > can not find where to configure it. No imapd.conf. Are there options for
>> > this server and if so, where can i configure them.
>>
>> Slackware ships with UW Imapd - http://www.washington.edu/imap/
>>
>> IIRC, there are few configurations that can be changed. And what can be
>> changed can only be done a compile time. So you'd have to grab the
>> source + compile with different options.
>>
>> UW Imapd is easy to use, but is not flexible, and isn't known for
>> performance. If you need flexibility and/or performance you're probably
>> better off with a different Imap server. Dovecot and Cyrus come to mind.

> thanx....
> I will throw it off and get me a better IMAP server

As your problem seems more in configuring than in performance issues
I have to warn you that the UW is the simplest to configure and
maintain. Especially Cyrus is a hell to start with.
For instance, if in the ER you put the pain on a scale from 0 to 10,
some well know stuff like sendmail and UW scale around 6,
Cyrus leads you to cry a nine, niiiine, ooh my gooood, help me.

But YMMV of course ;-)

I just finished setting all that up heh. I use dovecot and postfix. both
work fairly decently and have security. Cyrus is a massive pain to do
anything with at all.
"Loki Harfagr" <loki@DarkDesign.free.fr> wrote in message
news:427ce994$0$11611$636a15ce@news.free.fr...
> Le Sat, 07 May 2005 17:38:42 +0200, I w a n a écrit :
>
>> "Matt Payton" <mattpayton@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:fhhi5d.bf7.ln@stewie.taternuts.home...
>>> I w a n wrote:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> > I started the imap server included in slackware 10.0 and it works,
>> however I
>>> > can not find where to configure it. No imapd.conf. Are there options
>>> > for
>>> > this server and if so, where can i configure them.
>>>
>>> Slackware ships with UW Imapd - http://www.washington.edu/imap/
>>>
>>> IIRC, there are few configurations that can be changed. And what can be
>>> changed can only be done a compile time. So you'd have to grab the
>>> source + compile with different options.
>>>
>>> UW Imapd is easy to use, but is not flexible, and isn't known for
>>> performance. If you need flexibility and/or performance you're probably
>>> better off with a different Imap server. Dovecot and Cyrus come to
>>> mind.
>
>> thanx....
>> I will throw it off and get me a better IMAP server
>
> As your problem seems more in configuring than in performance issues
> I have to warn you that the UW is the simplest to configure and
> maintain. Especially Cyrus is a hell to start with.
> For instance, if in the ER you put the pain on a scale from 0 to 10,
> some well know stuff like sendmail and UW scale around 6,
> Cyrus leads you to cry a nine, niiiine, ooh my gooood, help me.
>
> But YMMV of course ;-)
>
>

My problem was that I cannot set up a secure connection to UW. It looks like
courier is a good choice. What do you guys think of it? Is it easy to
configure compared to cyrus?


"Loki Harfagr" <loki@DarkDesign.free.fr> wrote in message
news:427ce994$0$11611$636a15ce@news.free.fr...
> Le Sat, 07 May 2005 17:38:42 +0200, I w a n a écrit :
>
> > "Matt Payton" <mattpayton@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:fhhi5d.bf7.ln@stewie.taternuts.home...
> >> I w a n wrote:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > I started the imap server included in slackware 10.0 and it works,
> > however I
> >> > can not find where to configure it. No imapd.conf. Are there options
for
> >> > this server and if so, where can i configure them.
> >>
> >> Slackware ships with UW Imapd - http://www.washington.edu/imap/
> >>
> >> IIRC, there are few configurations that can be changed. And what can
be
> >> changed can only be done a compile time. So you'd have to grab the
> >> source + compile with different options.
> >>
> >> UW Imapd is easy to use, but is not flexible, and isn't known for
> >> performance. If you need flexibility and/or performance you're
probably
> >> better off with a different Imap server. Dovecot and Cyrus come to
mind.
>
> > thanx....
> > I will throw it off and get me a better IMAP server
>
> As your problem seems more in configuring than in performance issues
> I have to warn you that the UW is the simplest to configure and
> maintain. Especially Cyrus is a hell to start with.
> For instance, if in the ER you put the pain on a scale from 0 to 10,
> some well know stuff like sendmail and UW scale around 6,
> Cyrus leads you to cry a nine, niiiine, ooh my gooood, help me.
>
> But YMMV of course ;-)
>
>

I w a n wrote:
> My problem was that I cannot set up a secure connection to UW.

I'd be suprised if the stock imap on Slack was compiled without ssl
support, since that ( with ssl ) is the default...In fact, building UW
imap *without* ssl requires that you answer at least a couple prompts
says "yes, I really really do want to build this without ssl...".

The following page is linked from UW's official imap page, and is a
tutorial on using UW Imap with ssl - Probably a good place to start if
you wanted to keep trying the Slackware "stock" imap package :
http://tirian.magd.ox.ac.uk/~nick/op....shtml#uw-imap

I have also used stunnel ( http://www.stunnel.org ) to connect to imap (
and other services ) via ssl.
Long term it is probably better to configure imap ( whatever one you
choose ) with ssl support, but stunnel is nice when you're testing
different servers...You set up stunnel to encrypt imap traffic, and no
matter what server you decide to run today, you can connect to it via
ssl. Very easy testing...


> It looks like
> courier is a good choice. What do you guys think of it? Is it easy to
> configure compared to cyrus?
>

IIRC Courier uses Maildir which is different from what the stock imap
uses. It also includes it's own smtp and web mail servers. So it's
much more than just imap, and handles storing messages differently.
This may or may not be what you want.

I have never installed/administered courier, only used it, so I can't
say if it's easier than Cyrus. But I doubt it's any harder, as Cyrus
can be a PITA at first.

I'd say that the closest to a drop-in replacement for UW Imap is
dovecot. There should still be packages for it on linuxpackages.net,
including for Slack 10.0. Of course, there are probably also Courier
packages there too.

--
- Matt -

"David Willoughby" <dlw@d1w.org> wrote in message
news:3o9fe.3138$Yg4.291@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com ...
>I just finished setting all that up heh. I use dovecot and postfix. both
>work fairly decently and have security. Cyrus is a massive pain to do
>anything with at all.

Stop fucking top-posting.