Hi Anne, On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 23:07, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 1:45 pm, Mark wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Haven't been watching this thread too closely, actually I have > > deleted most of it.. O.K. It looks like someone swapping between > > different E-mailers.. I have a really easy suggestion here, and > > that is to set yourself up a local Imap server, and just get your > > mailer to connect to the localhost Imap server, then you can switch > > E-mailers at any time without worrying about how they store their > > mail. Just grab any Imap compatible E-mail client either, Evo, > > Kmail Mozilla etc and connect to the localhost Imap server.. switch > > at any time, and the mail will appear in them all.. > > > > Cheers > > Mark > > 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
O.K. it's probably not that easy but in your case it may be worth the effort. First up, check to see if your ISP has a Imap server, that would be the easiest way, just to get a feel about what a Imap server is all about etc... Usually not too many ISPs run them but you could be lucky. > a) what I'd need to install Usually Mandrake has Postfix installed by default.. If you discover your ISP does not run a Imap server, install a package called drakwizard if it's not already installed that is.. using rpmdrake or the command "urpmi drakwizard" Once that is installed, run the "Mandrake Control Center" within the "Mandrake Control Center" you will see a New Sub menu called "Server Configuration" select "The Postfix Wizard" and configure your Mail server. Once this has been done, you will still need to copy your /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf files to /var/spool/postfix/etc over writing the one there. Run the command "service postfix restart" Once that has restarted check your log files in /var/log/mail dir.. your mail server should be up and running. Now you will need to install fetchmail "urpmi fetchmail" and "urpmi fetchmail-daemon" should do the trick I am not going to through the setup with fetchmail but the doc at http://www.linuxnetmag.com/en/issue2/m2fetchmail1.html may help you setup fetchmail. (May be someone could drop a easier URL for this) Then install the Imap server "urpmi imap" and then "chkconfig imap on", then "service xinetd restart" If all has gone well, it's a matter of configuring your E-mail client to pick it's E-mail up from the Imap server at localhost > b) what I'd need to read up There is a number of Websites that talk about Fetchmail. The fetchmail homepage is at http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ Study up on security a little as if you follow this setup, you will be running some extra servers. May be setup the personal firewall from Mandrake.. or maybe something like Firestarter http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/ > c) which order to do things Probably the order laid out in this E-mail,, Setting up like this give you quite a number of advantages, such as offline mail etc.. Being able to swap E-mail clients anytime you like,. I hope this is a help.. Cheers Mark
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