On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:19:25 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2010-03-30 14:24, Rodney Baker wrote:
Carlos,
I use fetchmail to download the mail and use sendmail as the local MDA. Procmail runs all incoming mail through spamassassin and then sorts mail into multiple folders (in maildir format) based on defined rules (e.g. sorting into folders for various mail lists). The last rule puts all so-far unhandled rule into the inbox folder.
Dovecot reads the maildir format natively (with default config files) and serves the mail via IMAP both locally (to mail clients on the same machine) and to a couple of laptops on the lan.
I don't use disconnected IMAP because I don't need that for remote use. I was running squirrelmail to allow webmail access remotely but I don't currently have that running.
I have used this setup since FC4 days before moving to oS 10.3, 11.0, 11.2 and it has continued to work flawlessly. I've used Kmail, Thunderbird, Opera, Evolution , Outlook and Outlook Express at different times and all work fine (Outlook/Outlook Express being the least IMAP-friendly).
This way I get my entire mail store available either locally or across the lan, and if I setup squirrelmail again (or another webmail solution e.g. eGroupWare) I'll also have full access to it across the 'net anywhere I have access to a web browser.
The same setup should work with Postfix and mbox format if you prefer that to maildir (although I suspect the mail sorting using procmail may be more difficult).
BTW, my mail directory is /home/USER/Mail.
Interesting.
I think I'll have to test this.
I wonder if, with procmail and mbox the clients get the correct flags (read, replied, etc) via imap. I know that with my current, direct setup, they don't.
On my setup they certainly do, each time they check/refresh the mail (even if more than one client is logged into the same mail account simultaneously. That doesn't normally happen, btw, but since I normally leave kmail running in the systray on the desktop machine, if I happen to be checking mail from the laptop elsewhere in the house (or remotely via the web) kmail's state is always correct and up to date when I come back to the desktop. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org