Uninstalling courier?

[Thomas Berger1]

Hi,

I installed dovecot through a SSH session and now wanted to uninstall courier with yast. The problem is that a lot of other packages have dependencies on this package, including psa-backup-manager, psa-horde, psa-spamassassin and so on.

I'm a bit nervous about this now...if I would uninstall this package, does that mean that the automatic backups won't work anymore? Or that spamassassin won't work? Why is courier needed by plesk that deep?

I surely can live without configuring the mail configuration by the plesk panel, but no backups are no option for me.

Regards, Thomas

 

[IgorG]

Actually, it is important part of Plesk and it is deeply integrated with other Plesk components. We strongly do not recommend you to remove it from default Plesk installation.

 

[Thomas Berger1]

What are the other components doing with courier, why do they need it? Is it ok when I just stop the service? Or will this have any side effects?

 

[IgorG]

I think that service stopping will be enough, but note that ports 110 and 143 should be opened anyway.

 

[Thomas Berger1]

Ok, thanks.