Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1523 mails)

[Rodney Baker <rodney.baker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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