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Dovecot or IMAP?

I am running Fedora Core 2 and I notice when I went to /etc/xinentd.d the ipop3d imap, etc is not in there.

So I tired

[root@ns3 etc]# yum install imap
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Cannot find a package matching imap
No actions to take

Why will it not let me install imap?

I was reading a little info and people talked about Dovecot. Now I have had a few problems in the past with IMAP with redhat but got everything squared away. Should I switch if the old way was working? So what would you suggest? And also, how do I install IMAP on Fedora Core 2?

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Gns

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Gns

Hm and I suppose one should mention Courier imap too... So there, it's mentioned:-).

-- Glenn

Gns

BTW, Core 2 contains both cyrus (including imap) and dovecot... I'd say Dovecot would be the easier install ("yum install dovecot"...:-).

-- Glenn

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[root@ns3 rc.d]# yum install dovecot
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
dovecot is installed and is the latest version.
No actions to take

Do i need to put some kind of other files in my /etc/yum.conf to make this work?

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