Fri, 01 Oct 2004, by bronto@csd-bes.net:
I'm getting a SuSE 9.1 installation ready to be used as a mail server for a client.
I've done the complete 9.1 installation and update. I have postfix running, and it can send mail to my regular mail accounts. I'm trying to get pop & imap services running and am getting nowhere. I have all varieties of pop & imap up, and the proper ports are listening on the server. However, I can retrieve mail neither from a networked workstation or even locally on the machine itself. I'm using regular linux user accounts (no virtual). I've tried various password authentication types in case there were some encryption running that I wasn't aware of. I've reset my password to be sure I know what it is. Nothing seems to help here.
No idea why it's not working for you. I'm running Postfix, normally delivering to a Maildir. Making it work together with dovecot (a very easy and secure imap(s) and pop(s) server) was a no-brainer. Just tell Postfix to deliver in ~/Maildir with 'home_mailbox = Maildir/' in main.cf (make sure ~Maildir exists), and dovecot to look in the same directory with 'default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir' Edit /usr/share/doc/packages/dovecot/dovecot-openssl.cnf and run mkcert.sh (in the same dir) to generate your SSL certificates. Tell dovecot to listen on your hostaddress with 'imaps_listen = your.host.name' and start dovecot. That's it, configure a MUA to connect to 'your.host.name' on port 993, accept the cert and away you go. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.1 + Jabber: gurp@nedlinux.nl Kernel 2.6.5 + MSN: twe-msn@ferrets4me.xs4all.nl See headers for PGP/GPG info. +