Thanks! I tried the RPM method and it has ripped through it without any
noticeable errors. The reason I did not try that is this did not seem to be
well-documented. I was simply trying to follow the instructions given in
INSTALL.html. I read through the FAQ and other documents and seem to remember
seeing something about RPM's being possible but did not seem recommended. There
was no mention in any of the documentation about the option "--with-mailuser" so
that did not help. I am now seeing some documentation on the option in the
courier.sourceforge.net information but I just now found these. Also, it seems
to be listed in the Courier documentation, not the Courier-IMAP documentation so
that would have confused me anyway.

I am a newbie to Linux so none of this is really obvious to me.

For example, you said I could just use whatever I'm using for my MTA. I have
just gotten QMAIL installed, configured and tested but don't understand your
reference to an MTA. I know that stands for Message Transfer Agent which, I
guess is QMAIL. So, would I put in --with-mailuser=qmail?

I guess I now need to get courier-imap started. Will this RPM installation also
install the POP3 service? Or is that the vpopmail download? I have not started
looking into that part.

Loren

:: I'm attempting to install courier-imap-1.3.5 on Redhat 7.0. When :: I run the ./configure command, it rips through a bunch of :: "checking" messages and ends with the following two lines: :: :: checking for openssl... /usr/bin/openssl :: configure: error: --with-mailuser missing :: :: What am I doing wrong?

You should probably add a --with-mailuser=mail or whatever you're using for your MTA

However, if you're running RH 7, why not just do:

rpm -ta courier-imap-1.3.5.tar.gz

and build an rpm package? The SPEC file is included in the tarball. Just remember to build as a normal user, making either /usr/src/redhat writeable for that user or by following the hack ;-) documented at http://courier.sourceforge.net

Cheers,

-- Juha