> >>> 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. > > > > I don't think I'm using virtuals. I was only using pieces of that > > virtuals howto. I'm still trying to figure all this out. > > Please excuse me. I appear to have followed an assumption made by a > previous poster. > > >> 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. > > > > Because claws-mail is here and imap is there and I don't want to send > > the password unencrypted. I think the only thing I'm trying to do > > differently now is connect to imapd-ssl instead of imapd. > > Well, do it once to prove the point. Then change your password & move > to the next step. > > I actually intended for you to use claws-mail on the same machine as > the IMAP server - use `ssh -X` if necessary - just so you could see > how it's set up. > > Is Squirrelmail still working, connecting to the 143 port? Have you > tried changing it to connect via IMAPS? > > >> ... 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). > > > > I started imapd-ssl with those settings the other day. That's how > > I've been trying to connect with no luck. > > Have you run "/etc/init.d/courier-imapd-ssl start"? > > Does `lsof` or `netstat` indicate the server is listening on the > IMAPS port? > Have you tried port-scanning the server using nmap? > Have you tried doing so from localhost? > > > I don't know if it's a > > certificate problem or something else. Should I copy > > /etc/courier-imap/imapd.pem from the remote server to somewhere on the > > local machine for claws-mail? > > I doubt it. I've never had to do anything like that. Your mail client > will normally just pop up a "moody certificate" error which you can > tell it to ignore. > > > Should I be using my remote server's IP address for the server names > > in the claws-mail config? Should IMAP4 authentication method be > > Automatic? > > Yes, that should be fine.
Does anyone know if claws-mail-smime is the gpg plugin? If so, should it show up under Privacy or Plugins once I've emerged it? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
