Guntha Aravind babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi all, > > i have been asking questions ,but i could not get any > responses. > > I am trying to install courier imap srever on linux > system. > > i have read the documentation but i have some problems > .please can anyone help me. > > i have downloaded courier imap and i have kept in my > university account where a student doesnot have > administrative permissions.
Why do you want to run your own IMAP service? Does your university not support IMAP access to email accounts? There is a basic problem with running your own, local IMAP service on your university's network: the standard TCP/IP port used for IMAP is port 143, but that is a privileged port. It will be impossible for you to start a service on this port as a non-root user, even if your university is not currently using that port. Another fundamental problem is this: even if you were to install your private IMAP server on a different port, how would email going to you get delivered to a place that this IMAP server knows about? Are you planning to use "procmail", "maildrop", or something similar to cause your incoming email to be delivered to the location that your personal IMAP server knows about? If not, or if you don't know what I'm talking about, then you are probably on the wrong track to begin with in trying to install IMAP on your local linux box. But assuming that you indeed are planning to run IMAP on your own port and to somehow route your incoming email to a location that your IMAP server knows about, I will answer the rest of your questions ... > to compile and install the server i have followed the > rules given in documentation. that is > > $ ./configure > $ make > > then i did not understand what does $ make check and > $make install do. "make check" runs tests to verify if your software built correctly. You should run this and look at the output. If any errors are mentioned, you should not proceed further until you fix them. If there are no errors, then issuing "make install" will install the software into the proper locations. These are standard conventions that are well known to application developers and installers under linux and other Unix-like systems. > as said in the documentation if installation is > successful, then there exists /usr/lib/courier-imap > directory. but as i said i dont have permission to > write into lib. so i have used the option for > configure, > that is --prefix= ../imap/ . > > then i could see some directories in ../imap/ like > bin/ etc/ libexec/ man/ sbin/ share/ var/ > > also the documentation says to use the following > command to start server > $/usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/imapd.rc start > but i dont have any directory in /usr/lib like > courier-imap. > but i could able to see the file imap.rc in > ../imap/libexec/imapd.rc > but if i run the above command ,it says the command > not found. If you were to run "make install", and if this run succeeded, then the libexec/imapd.rc file would exist under ../imap/ But even with all that, your IMAP server will not start up because of what I mentioned above about port 143. You would have to change your IMAP configuration to use this alternate port (must be a port whose number is greater than 1024 and which is not currently defined in /etc/services), and then your remote email clients would have to connect to this port. > can anyone p-lease help me or give me suggestions > where i am doing wrong and what exactly i have to do. > > Thanks and regards > aravind Well, as I mentioned, there are fundamental problems with running your own IMAP service as a local user. If you address these issues, and if you then do the proper configuration of the IMAP port, and if you plant to set up a mail delivery agent to store your incoming email into the location that your IMAP server knows about, then the "make check" and "make install" steps should help you complete your task. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
