dovecot as alternative

[Mihai Badici]

> It would be quite easy to allow dovecot as an alternative imap server.
> I'm pretty sure setup-kolab doesn't work with dovecot, and to the best
> of my knowledge setup-kolab does not check whether or not cyrus is
> installed, it just assumes that it is. Which is correct with the current
> installation dependencies.



> 
> So it gets a little bit more complex. I'm thinking we could have kolab
> depend on an imap server (either cyrus, which would be the default, or
> dovecot, or anything else). In combination, we could move the dependency
> on cyrus to the kolab-conf package, so cyrus would be required for
> setup-kolab - at least for now. The end result being that you can
> install any old imap server, but if it isn't cyrus, you'd be on your own
> in terms of setting up your server.

If Cyrus will be required by setup-kolab I can install all kolab metapackage,  
run setup-kolab and eventually remove setup-kolab and cyrus.

After that, i can install dovecot. I will manage with configuration, in fact i 
will ned only one or two templates. If I will install more than two servers 
probably I will wrote a pach for setup-kolab :)

> 
> If you could file a bug, we could work against that to see what can be
> done.
> 
> > Well, I could compile from source, but I already done that for
> > Slackware, on Debian it is supposed to be easy :)
> 
> It is, provided the package maintainer makes it easy :-D.

Well, everybody agree, Debian is great for production use. 
But when you try to abandon the "right way" it's problematic. That's way I use 
slackware who let me broke my system if I want to .. and sometime even if I 
don't want to :)
So I will fill a bug ( I'm not sure where, because is not a kolab issue but a 
package one) and perhaps will have a nice result at the end.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul
> 
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Mihai Badici
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