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. :-)