Dan Hensley wrote: > I have 3 different POP accounts that I regularly check. I'd like to > turn my machine into a local server for these accounts so I can access > e-mail from anywhere on my local network and also through my firewall > for when I'm out of town. > > I believe what I need to do is set up an IMAP server and use fetchmail > to download the POP e-mails to the IMAP server. I believe I need some > kind of mail agent to take the e-mail downloaded by fetchmail and put > it in the right place for the IMAP server. > > What I've done so far is compile and install courier-imap. I set up 3 > virtual users and verified that the server works. That's it so far. > I've been reading fetchmail, maildrop, and qmail documentation as > well. > > If anyone could give me some pointers I'd appreciate it.
Greetings, Dan. Your homework has put you on the right track. My solution for this involves Postfix, fetchmail, Courier-IMAP and SquirrelMail (for webmail). I built this on top of Mandrake 8.1, and it's working flawlessly. The only gotcha was disabling a call to procmail as the MDA in the postfix config file, and also enabling Maildir as the storage format. Everything else went basically pretty standard. This page was a very good read when I was looking for info on setting up my mail server: http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/RH71-Postfix-Courier-Maildrop-IMAP/ The above link is on the postfix documentation page, which has some other potentially useful information: http://www.postfix.org/docs.html Hope this helps, - Leo _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
