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Re: Newbie imapd Question



On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:13:40PM -0700, Curtis Spencer wrote:

> I have been running postfix on my server for a while and I am able to 
> get mail to my accounts just fine.  However, I want to put in an imapd 
> server, so I decided to aptitude install of cyrus-imapd.  That install 
> seemed to work properly.  

If you're just starting with cyrus, you really want to get the
cyrus21-imapd instead. If you're running woody, there's backports
available by the same guy who maintains the package for
testing/unstable.

> Now I would like to just run it stand alone 
> without any inetd, so I just type in:
> 
> /usr/sbin/imapd and I get
> * OK host Cyrus IMAP4 v1.5.19 server ready

It can't run standalone; it's meant to run out of inetd. Cyrus21 runs
standalone.

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