[plug] A couple of questions...

[John Breen]

>
>On  5 Oct, Leon Brooks wrote:
>> John Breen wrote:
>>> In some ways I hate it when this happens.  A quick look at
>>> http://rpmfind.net found what I was looking for here - the rpm I 
>need
>>> is imap-4.7-5.i386.rpm
>> 
>> Is it? Imap may be overkill for you; something safer may be more 
>appropriate.
>> 
>
>Yah I am sure imap is probably overkill though I seem to remember 
>that
>redhat put Imap and pop3 in the same RPM - someone correct me if i'm
>wrong.
You're dead right.  It seems a silly thing to have done, but then...

>
>Anyway you can leave pop3 running if you need it but I would
>disable imap by commenting out the imapd entry in /etc/inetd.conf and
>then restart inetd by using 
I've done that, although on my network it might be simpler to leave
all my mail on the one box and use imap to access it - just make sure
the port isn't opened by the firewall...


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