Re: [cobalt-users] IMAP Any problem turning it off?

[Wayne Sagar <wsagar@xxxxxxxx>]

>Yes.

What would those problems be then?

>IMAP is a mail retriving protocol, not sending (I think ;p) - I believe
>sending is done via SMTP.  Anyhow, what recieves mail on your cobalt is
>the smtp server (port 25) - closing either pop3 or imap won't result in
>problem recieving mail to the box (although if you close both of them,
>users will have to have shel access to read their emails)...

I guess what I'm asking is: If a user has a POP mail client and someone
sends mail using an IMAP client.. will that user still get the IMAP email
when they check their mail, using thier POP access? Server still sends and
I'm, seemingly, getting all of my mail using Eudora (very old, reliable
version of Eudora pro) I just want to make sure I do not block out people
sending mail to the server who are using IMAP clients..

>now, removing imap is simple, you need to change one file and restart a
>service.

Did that and it's off... 

>But then, Active Monitor will start complaining. You can disable that too,
>by editing another file.

I'll leave that part alone, it only reports that the IMAP server is not
up.. other than having to check it once in a while to make sure it's
nothing else hosed (since the red light is on all the time) it's not a
problem to have it on.. 

Just thought that not having *any* service running that is not being used
was a good idea.. and It seemed that no one on the user list using mail was
using it.. so.... outta here.. we'll see I guess.

WS