On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:34:05AM -0500, gary wrote: : On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:22:04AM -0500 or thereabouts, Oskar Teran wrote: : : > >IIUC, you are saying that fetchmail can act as an IMAP server to the LAN. : > no, the same server you have fetchmail running on can also run an imap : > server using postfix or sendmail for example. : > easy imap daemon : uw-imap - it comes standard with most linux distros : > now, but it's not meant for heavy usage (production). For a home email : > box, this should be sufficient. : > : > better imap daemons : courier or cyrus - these not as easy to setup as : > uw-imap, but they are better for a heavy mail server (production). For : > home, they would work, but probably overkill. However, if you have the : > time, go for it! : : Just wanted to add a comment that it also depends on what kind of mail you : have set up.. Courier only works with Maildir type mail, as does a new : IMAP server, BINC. The others work with mbox type mail. I believe Cyrus : is included in the SuSE distro. Actually, cyrus-imapd uses their own non-mbox, database format. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!