While I got the default sendmail implementation to work out of the box, I was unable to point my favorite e-mail client at it until I installed the imap package. The error messages were not useful, and I had to search a newsgroup (2 hours of work) to figure out what was wrong. I would like to suggest that either the imap package be installed by default, or an entry be added to the RH6.1 knowledge base explaining the significance of imap and what it is used for.
assigned to ed for club docs follow up
Moving it to docs group
There is a sendmail HOWTO (http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/RH-sendmail-HOWTO/c238.html) that says: <snip> 4.1.7 The Networked Home User Environment There aren't many changes required between the stand alone and the networked user. Some key elements would be the /etc/mail/access file where you will have to explicitly allow your local subnet access to your MTA as a relay. You will also need to ensure that you have the IMAP RPM installed. If we presume that you're using the 192.168.1.0 network for your local network and you have a machine called sally at 192.168.1.10 and ralph at 192.168.1.12, and bob at 192.168.1.14. Here's a brief HOWTO on both the access file and the IMAP RPM elements: </snip> Is this the type of information you are asking to be included in the docs or knowledge base? If not, can you be more specific please? Thanks, Sandra
Docs have been added for next release about IMAP - the need to install the IMAP packages if your ISP uses IMAP servers rather than SMTP servers. Marking as errata since it is a doc add-on.