On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:35 am, RichardA wrote: > I went off list a couple of months ago to move house. Didn't want to rejoin > until I had my email set up just right, but I'm struggling. Here's some > background: > > I want my server to pick up mail and dump it in /maildir format, because > it's more reliable. Then I want to read it from either of two client PCs. > Simple, yes? > I got as far as setting up fetchmail and postfix, but courier-imap beat me. > The Mandrake rpm seemed not to be all there, and when I tried to compile > from source rpm the error message said there was no makefile. I used a > Mandrake imap program (imap-2001), connected from KMail but I could see all > of my home folder, not just the maildir. After some messing about I got the > mail root folder right, but instead of seeing lots of mail in each folder I > had to drill down through those strangely-named folders to read each one. > If I could use courier-imap, would that problem go away? Or is KMail not > very good at imap? > > Next, I thought that maybe I could mount the maildir over nfs on each > machine. Got nfs set up first try (!), but KMail seems to move the mail > into a local folder or something - I know it's not right, but I haven't > worked out exactly what happens. > > This post is messy, as is my email currently. What I want to do must be > really common, and I'd welcome help, hints, constructive abuse, anything > really. If there's an entirely different way to do what I want that would > be fine, too. > > RichardA > > P.S. Glad you're all still here and Mandrake haven't gone bust :-)
I have a paper on Postfix/Fetchmail/Procmail/Courier-IMAP that covers what you are trying to do. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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