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25Oct/090

Installing Courier POP3 and IMAP daemon with MySql backend

The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent, framework. In this tutorial we'll only use the Courier POP3 and IMAP services.

It's assumed that you have already installed and configured Postfix according to this tutorial: Installing Postfix with MySql backend and SASL for SMTP authentication

1. Install required packages

apt-get install courier-authdaemon courier-authlib-mysql courier-pop courier-pop-ssl courier-imap courier-imap-ssl

1Jul/090

Installing Courier POP3 and IMAP services with MySql backend

This tutorial assumes you already have Postfix installed with MySql backend as described in this tutorial: Installing Postfix with MySql backend and TLS

1. Install required packages

apt-get install courier-authdaemon courier-authlib-mysql courier-pop courier-pop-ssl courier-imap courier-imap-ssl