On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 2:47 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 09:07, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 1:45 pm, Mark wrote: > > > > Mark, it may be easy, but it's a whole new ball game for me. I'm > > interested, though. So, can you give me a quick outline of > > > > a) what I'd need to install > > b) what I'd need to read up > > c) which order to do things > > > > Anne > > Hi Anne: > > The way I did it was with: > IMAP: cyrus (lot of people also use courier) > Fetchmail: to pick your mail from your mail server (i have read > that it can also be used for filtering). > Postfix: to send your mail (I read that it was easier to setup and > safer than sendmail) > Procmail: for filtering. > > I created a test mail account and until I didn't feel every thing > was working fine I didn't migrate from my original setup. > > I installed every thing from Mandrake CD's. > > The HOWTO on cyrus was very helpful. > > Googling for postfix procmail cyrus will give you lot of > information. > > In www.procmail.org you will find some very interesting and useful > links. > > > Having your mails available anywhere is perhaps the most valuable > aspect of IMAP. > > It is worth the effort.
Thanks, Adolfo. There just aren't enough hours in a day, are there <g> This one definitely sounds worth doing, though, so I may be back with questions. Anne
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