man imapd
ought to tell you which imap you have installed. (Assuming imapd is the name of your 
daemon)

Whichever one it is, it is pretty easy to change to a different one.
I use Courier-imap which works pretty well for me. Another alternative is University 
of Washington imap, and there are a couple of others too. 

derek

n Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:42:30 -0800 (PST)
Kenn Murrah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> thanks, derek ...
> 
> it occurs several times a day at seemingly random
> times ... 
> 
> i've looked in /var/log/ and i can't figure out where
> imap is writing ... is it messages? or mail? or
> somewhere else?
> 
> also, i don't know how to determine which imap is
> running ... it installed by default with engardelinux
> ..
> 
> thanks for the continued help.
> 
> 
> --- Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you are losing connection to an IMAP client it is
> > your IMAP server which 
> > has the issue not Postfix. Which IMAP server are you
> > using?
> > 
> > Does this happen at the same time every day? If so
> > your IMAP server may have a 
> > cron job, or an entry in /etc/logrotate.d  which is
> > 'tidying up' every day 
> > and restarting the server.
> > 
> > derek
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 1:59 pm, Kenn Murrah wrote:
> > > Greetings.
> > >
> > >
> > > I've just set up a postfix mail server on an
> > Engarde
> > > (community) Linux box ... The good news is that is
> > > works ALMOST all the time :-)
> > >
> > >
> > > But periodically (for no reason that I can find),
> > the
> > > mail server seems to shut down, giving the client
> > an
> > > error like "IMAP connection to server has been
> > broken"
> > > ... it's not a client issue, because when it
> > happens,
> > > ALL users attempting to access mail get a similar
> > > message, regardless of platform ...
> > >
> > >
> > > Any ideas what's wrong?  I'm wondering if my linux
> > box
> > > itself (with only one NIC being used) might  be
> > part
> > > of the problem ... Would the problem go away if I
> > used
> > > two NICs, one for my connection to the outside
> > world,
> > > and one for connection to my intranet??? (that may
> > be
> > > totally irrelevant, but I'm grasping at straws
> > here)
> > > ....
> > >
> > >
> > > And course, the answer may lie in the logs ... but
> > I'm
> > > far too much of a newbie to know what I'm looking
> > for
> > > in them...
> > >
> > >
> > > Any and all help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > > Kenn Murrah
> > >
> > >
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