Stephen Chandler wrote:
Wayhey!
It seems to have worked. I changed the UMask to 0000 and I can add, delete and, well, edit folders now. Brilliant! Thanks Simon, I also didn't expect a reply to quickly. Kudos!
Now, I wonder if you will be able to tell me whether my fetchmail idea is possible? To tell fetchmail to grab email from a POP3 account and place them in the INBOX directory?
Fetchmail doesn't deliver to directories. Its more or less a go between for a POP/IMAP daemon and an MTA. That being said, you can use something different to get your mail and deliver to certain directories. The software I recommend is called getmail and it can be found at: http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/
I've never used version 4, but here is a sample of my version 3 conf file:
[default] # This section provides default arguments and values,
# and variables which can be used in other sections
verbose = 1 # Be verbose by default
readall = 0 # Retrieve only new messages by default
delete = 1 # Delete mail after retrieval by default
#message_log = /var/mail/getmail.log # Log message retrieval and delivery to this file by default
timeout = 240 # TCP timeout value; increase if on a poor connection or
# slow POP3 server. getmail defaults to a 180 second timeout.
max_message_size = 1048576 # Don't retrieve messages over 1MB (MiB). Default is 0, which
# means no limit.
[User Account]
server = insertyourseverhere.com
username = joeuser
password = yourpassword
postmaster = ~joeuser/Mail/default/ # Deliver mail to correct maildir
#postmaster = "|/usr/bin/procmail -t /home/wacky/test1/procmailrc 2>&1 /dev/null"
Obviously for security reasons the permission on this file are important. Make sure they are set in a correct way.
<>Many thanks, really grateful already!
Yeah, bincimap is one heck of a great piece of software.
Dan
