On 10 Feb 2008, at 01:23, Grant wrote:
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I just don't have a good understanding of email. Can you give me an
idea of how you'd set this up? At this point I only need mail for
myself via claws-mail. I currently use postfix, courier-imap, and
squirrelmail, and my mail is in ~/.maildir/ too.
Well, I don't see why you changed Courier to virtuals.
When you connect with Squirrelmail it is simply connecting to the
IMAP server on hostname port 143 or 993. When it does so the IMAP
server says "hello, what's your username, password" and Squirrelmail
gives these. I don't see why you didn't point claws-mail at the same
IMAP server - all you'd have needed to do so, give it the same
username & password and Bob would have married your auntie in a big
ceremony with lots of flowers & confetti.
Squirrelmail might typically connect to the server on localhost using
unencrypted IMAP - on the same machine you should be able to connect
claws-mail the same way. You may wish then to configure the IMAP
server to allow connections from other addresses and to listen on
secure IMAPS / 993, but this is trivial (eg "SSLADDRESS=0" in /etc/
courier-imap/imapd-ssl).
You still need to connect to the same machine on secure IMAPS / 993,
but changing (from authentication based on Unix users??) to virtual
users has presumably broken your existing configuration (and ensured
that the server no longer knows where to look for your mail store),
so you need start again (largely) from scratch.
Stroller.
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