Hi,
On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:59:50 +0000
"JUAN ERNESTO FLORES BELTRAN"
"you'd need a separate IMAP server (which has nothing to do with postfix, which is a MTA). I can recommend cyrus, but if you only have one account and one folder to check, it's probably way easier to setup uw-imapd instead"
what are the differences between cyrus and uw-imapd?? is cyrus more complex to setup than uw.imapd?? what other differences??
It's probably a little bit more complex to setup cyrus, at least for a very simple solution.
Can i read and send mails from remote machines by setting up uw-imapd?? any howto link ??
No, you can only read them via IMAP. For sending, you need an SMTP server - which you already have installed (postfix). I don't have a howto-link at hand, but it's as easy as - install xinetd or inetd (probably already installed) - install imapd - to set it up, enable it in xinetd/inetd. imapd probably installs its own config file for xinetd, otherwise put this as /etc/xinetd.d/imap: ---snip--- service imap2 { socket_type = stream wait = no user = root server = /usr/sbin/imapd } ---snip--- this should get you running. If using cyrus, you'd have to reconfigure postfix to deliver to cyrus via LMTP. Using uw-imapd, you don't have to care as it understands the standard Unix mail spool (/var/mail/USER). Note, though, that this spool file is in mbox format and thus isn't suitable for very large amounts of mail - at least not, if those mails are manipulated now and then. -hwh