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[William]

Nate Duehr wrote:

> William wrote:
>
>> Between Courier and Dovecot, I chose Courier.  It was a marked 
>> challenge installing and configuring Courier the first time; don't 
>> get me wrong -- it's a bear.  However, I documented the entire 
>> experience and I'm presently reformatting that documentation into a 
>> detailed How-To that may help people who consider Courier the right 
>> choice for themselves.  :)
>
> Not sure if it's because of the "extra" things you needed to do or 
> not, but Courier install on my Debian Sarge server was a snap... it 
> was harder to convert the mailboxes from mbox to Maildir than it was 
> to install Courier.
>
> aptitude install courier-authdaemon courier-base courier-imap 
> courier-pop courier-ssl courier-doc

That's the key right there:  I'm using RHEL/CentOS.  Courier RPMs did 
not exist for yum, so I had to download and build everything from 
source.  Getting through the configuration files (pre-build) alone was a 
nightmare, partly because Courier assumes that RPMs exist for all 
RH-based systems and goes out of its way specifically to prevent you 
from building manually on RH systems.  Post build, manual configuration 
and integration was also a challenge (especially for a multi-server, 
SQL-based solution), but once I got everything in place, it became a 
gem.  I found that it is very easy to maintain, once in place.

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