How To Install IMAP & POP3 Server For Fedora Core 4

The perfect setup of fedora core 4 fails you on multiple fronts. First you cannot install apt as the package it mentioned has become obsolete and latest packages do not install with rpm. The use of apt is not recommended anymore and not maintained either. Secondly the POP3 and IMAP servers do not get installed either. It is not safe to use the prescribed obsolete and dangerous (security) uw-imap package (name - imap-2002d-3.i386.rpm). You have however two good options for enabling POP3 / IMAP support in Fedora Core 4.

You can use the dovecot package that comes with Fedora Core 4. The process is simple.
su
chkconfig –levels 35 dovecot on
service dovecot start

In plain english this is what you are doing above:
- Logging in a root
- Configuring dovecot to start as service for level 3 (console based) and 5 (GUI based).
- Starting dovecot service

You can also use Cyrus-IMAPd or QPopper.