Michael Mansour wrote:
> BTW Ioannis, when you're looking for "something" using yum, you can use:
> 
> # yum whatprovides blah
> 
> where blah is usually the name of a file (yum whatprovides pop3 in your case).
> 
> The output would be extensive (pages of stuff), but there's very little chance
> you'll not see what you're looking in the multitude of packages that'll be
> displayed with a keyword of "pop3" for example.
> 
> You can then use:
> 
> # yum info <packagename>
> 
> or in your case:
> 
> # yum info dovecot
> 
> to see what the package is before actually installing it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael.


Thank you for this information. There is also yum search. yumex also displayed dovecot and 
   cyrus-imapd. Actually I was looking for a stand-alone, only-pop3 server (remembering 
pop3d from my suse linux 6.x days). dovecot is the closest to it, and I am giving it a 
try. :-)