Eric Walstad wrote: > Greetings kind debianites, > > I'm in the process of learning MTA admin. My head is about to > explode. > > I'm wanting to setup a Debian box that'll suck down pop email from an > ISP for a few local users and then serve those email up via pop3 or > imap on the LAN. Following some advice I received on this list, I > installed fetchmail, courier-imap, courier-pop and exim4. I then > found that exim4 and courier like different mailbox formats. I > couldn't find a way to make exim4 work with courier's maildir format, > so I figured I'd replace exim4 with courier-mta. Now fetchmail and > courier-mta are fighting (courieresmtp throws an ERROR 513, syntax > error, when fetchmail tries to forward an email) over addresses like > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". > > So, I'm stuck. I haven't had any luck in figuring out how to fix > courier and I don't know how to fix exim4. > > Any sage bits of advice are appreciated. > > Eric. > > PS, I hope you mail admins get paid a LOT of money for what you do. > I'm finding email setup and admin is very complex.
I don't know courier-mta but i would go back to exim4. Edit the files in /etc/exim4/conf.d I added this to get exim4 to deliver to maildirs (imap) LOCAL_DELIVERY=maildir_home # transports maildir_home: debug_print = "T: maildir_home for [EMAIL PROTECTED]" driver = appendfile directory = $home/Maildir delivery_date_add envelope_to_add return_path_add mode = 0600 mode_fail_narrower = false maildir_format Before you test, stop fetchmail and try a testmessage with exim -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blah blah blah . The period is to stop composing the mail and send it. Then run a MUA that supports imap and look if it sees the maildirs ok. Or you can debug courier by telneting into it. This is something i found on the net regarding debugging imap ============= snippet ========== In the following telnet example, you must provide your own password where id_password is indicated in the login command. telnet e-xbelize 143 Trying... Connected to e-xbelize.austin.ibm.com. Escape character is '^]'. * OK e-xbelize.austin.ibm.com IMAP4 server ready . login id id_password . OK . examine /usr/spool/mail/root * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)] * 0 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 823888143] . OK [READ-ONLY] Examine completed . logout * BYE Server terminating connection . OK Logout completed Connection closed. ============= snippet ==========Regards,Benedict -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
