Installing Dovecot 2 on CentOS | Linux Today

Installing Dovecot 2 on CentOS

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 24, 2011

[ Thanks to Andrew
Weber
for this link. ]

“Dovecot version 2 has been available for some time but it may
not be in the repositories for CentOS for a long time to come. This
tutorial will show you how to perform a basic install of Dovecot
version 2 and get it working for one domain… other tutorials will
follow with additional configurations.

“The repository for CentOS 5.5 does not have the version
required for postgresql-libs. As a result you will need to enable
the testing repository for CentOS. Warning: Any time you install
from the testing repository you will be taking on additional risk,
so think twice about using it on a production machine. Create
access to the CentOS testing repo. Add the Centos-Test.repo in
/etc/yum.repos.d.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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