On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 23:23 +0000, Craig McLean wrote:
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> Gene Heskett wrote:
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> > I've about come to that conclusion myself, so I'm now investigating the
> > fetchmail->procmail_>dovecot solution right now. But the dovecot
> > mailing list might be a problem, I've subbed about an hour ago but have
> > rx'd no please confirm message yet.
> >
> > Joanne has me about straight on the fetchmail and procmail stuffs, and I
> > may even see if I can turn that part on just for grins, but
> > dovecot's .conf looks like it'll need a philly lawyer to decode it
> > correctly so it works.
>
> Heh, yeah. The dovecot config can be pretty daunting, I'll try and
> summarise how I've got it set up here, but many things may not be needed
> where you are.
> The only uncommented lines in my config are:
>
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> protocols = imap imaps # We don't use POP
> ssl_cert_file = /etc/mail/certs/fukka.co.uk.cert # SSL stuff
> ssl_key_file = /etc/mail/certs/fukka.co.uk.key # SSL stuff
> disable_plaintext_auth = no # Nasty Squirrelmail
> # hack
> login_user = dovecot # Discrete user for
> # processes
> login_processes_count = 1 # Tuning
> login_max_processes_count = 12 # Tuning
> login_max_logging_users = 12 # Tuning
> first_valid_uid = 1000 # Security
> first_valid_gid = 0 # Hack for my GID
> mail_extra_groups = mail # Permissions tweak
> default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%u # YMMV - check the docs
> lock_method = flock # Multiple things lock
> # mail here
> maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes # Dunno. Check docs
> mbox_read_locks = flock # Locking
> mbox_write_locks = flock # Locking
> mbox_lazy_writes = no # Tweak
> protocol imap { # IMAP settings in {}
> login_greeting_capability = no
> imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
> tb-extra-mailbox-sep
> }
> auth_verbose = yes # Just because
> auth default { # User auth setings in
> # {}
> mechanisms = plain
> passdb pam {
> }
> userdb passwd {
> }
> user = root
> }
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> I've found the docs for dovecot to be fairly good, if a little tech-heavy.
>
> On the other hand, FC also includes both UW-IMAP and Cyrus, more about
> UW at http://www.washington.edu/imap/ and Cyrus at
> http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/
>
> Either of these is likely to be easier to configure that dovecot.
>
> >> In a configuration where you don't readily run sendmail to accept
> >> mail, I would suggest staying the hell away from it and:
> >
> > Sendmail does run to collect local mail here, like from amanda and
> > cron/logwatch, that sort of stuff. And I'd like to figure out a way to
> > collect mail from the firewall box so I didn't have to log in via ssh
> > 2-3 times a week and read the chkrootkit reports and such. Its
> > normally a mounted samba share from here, so maybe I could get kmail to
> > do that now that I think about it. Humm, off to try it by golly.
> >
>
> You'll be a whizz at installing IMAP servers soon, you could install one
> on the firewall box and use fetchmail to pull it onto the main server.
> Assuming you felt suitably insane.
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he can also ask dovecot questions on fedora list too rather than adding
noise here.
Craig
