On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 11:18 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ron > > Thanks so much for your email. You won't believe this > but your set up seems to be almost exactly what I have. > I even have a remote mail relay that I used just like you. > I also use Courier-IMAP in other systems. > > It never occurred to me that I could run Courier-IMAP > on the same box as I run Evolution. That is beautiful!! > I don't know why I thought Evolution client must be on a > different machine.
<grin> That's the beauty of TCP/IP and sockets! > Chris > > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:46:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 09:34 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I am subscribed to a ton of mailing lists and get a constant > > > river of emails coming into my current fetchmail/procmail/mutt > > > MAILDIR system. > > > > > > I want to move to Evolution talking IMAP to my remote mail > > > server now. I'd like Evolution to put emails into **same** > > > MAILDIR directories as fetchmail/procmail currently does. > > > > > > The problem is that I don't understand very well why/how > > > Evolution puts emails into folders. I cannot just > > > "learn as I go" because I may lose emails in the learning > > > process!!! > > > > > > Also, it appeared that Evolution was putting emails into > > > //different// non-MAILDIR directories there for a moment. > > > > > > Because I use email constantly, I need to set up Evolution > > > immediately PERFECTLY which is not realistic!?!? > > > > > > Any advice on a graceful way to ease the transition to > > > Evolution would be greatly appreciated. > > > > I use these, and it works extremely well: > > fetchmail > > postfix > > SpamAssassin > > maildrop # nice server-side filtering > > Courier-IMAP > > > > Now, I can use any MUA I want: pine, Evo, Mutt, Sylpheed, webmail, > > kmail, Mozilla, etc. > > > > Even though I use Debian, and this is RH -specific, I found it very > > easy to set everything up. > > http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/RH90-Postfix-Courier-Maildrop-IMAP/ > > > > On my box, a cron job fires off fetchmail every 5 minutes, which, > > as you know, grabs the email. It passes the mail to postfix, which > > filters it thru SA, and then gives it to maildrop, which puts it > > into the proper ~/Maildir folder. This is independent of whether > > courier-IMAP is running or not. IMAP, though, is how the MUA gets > > the mail. > > > > Note also that I use postfix's relayhost to send mail out to my > > ISP's smtp server. Thus, I just have to tell each MUA to SMTP > > mail to my own box, which then sends the mail out to the ISP. > > Really sweet. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on politicians and journalists." Henrik Ibsen
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