Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: "William L. Thomson Jr." <support@××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-server <gentoo-server@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Gentoo email services/programs
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:12:41
Message-Id: 1077570755.4967.4.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Gentoo email services/programs by Andy Dustman
1 On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 15:27, Andy Dustman wrote:
2 > William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
3 >
4 > > For example I looked into emerging courier-imap. Which for some reason
5 > > required xfree to be installed due to some dependency. That's rediculous
6 > > for a server to have x when it will not be used.
7 >
8 > Set USE=-X and you should be able to merge it without xfree.
9
10 Yes it does work. Should have thought of that sooner.
11
12 > The actual
13 > xfree dependency comes from dev-tcltk/expect. I use courier-imap (though
14 > not on Gentoo at the moment) and would recommend it for use with qmail
15 > and/or Maildirs. It supplies a POP server as well.
16
17 Great so at that point I can choose to stick with or get rid of
18 Sendmail.
19
20 I am undecided about using Postfix or Qmail to replace Sendmail.
21 Still doing research on which one will fit best for my needs.
22
23 > Both IMAP and POP
24 > come in the secure (SSL) varieties.
25
26 Great. A requirement I forgot to mention. I want to only run secure
27 services. For the transition period like now I run both. However I am
28 migrating all clients to secure only.
29
30 --
31 Sincerely,
32 William L. Thomson Jr.
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