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.

> I wish to be receiving my local mail (which consists of system log 
> messages), via a local POP3 server. However I found no POP3 daemon 
> in standard distribution with yumex. Isn't there any POP3 daemon in 
> standard SL 4.2?
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