dovecot as alternative

[Mihai Badici]

I tried to replace cyrus-imapd with dovecot-ldap on debian on a running kolab3 
installation.

My plan was first to install dovecot from distribution and compile the 
metadata support after.
As i know there are plans to include metadata support in the main software, so 
I hope in the near future the distribution package could be used as is.

But I didn't find a way to replace the package.
I'm not a regular Debian user and I'm not exactly an expert in packaging 
Debian, but as I see, dovecot-imapd is marked as exclusive via kolab, so if I 
try to apt-get dovecot-imapd whole kolab will be uninstaled.

In fact if I stop cyrus-imapd dovecot could work without any problems, I even 
don't need to uninstal it.

So, I wonder if there is a way to allow  dovecot-imapd to be installed as an 
alternative imap server.

Well, I could compile from source, but I already done that for Slackware, on 
Debian it is supposed to be easy :)



-- 
Mihai Badici
http://mihai.badici.ro
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