John N. Alegre [mailto:lists@johnalegre.net] wondered:
Could some kind person point me to a good HOWTO or tutorial on setting up POP Mail on a SuSE 9.1 Pro system.
I'd like to find a neat, concise (yet explanatory, as in, why you are doing each step and what the options are... hmm, probably defeats "concise" right there, doesn't it) HowTo for setting up an IMAP server on SUSE. Meanwhile, there's something at http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_suse_9.2 and a similar one for 10.1 that might have useful info for you. For me, it leaves me with as many questions as it answers, since, of course, I don't wish to do exactly what the writer has done, but I'm not sure which bits are important and which are not as far as antecedents to the IMAP/POP3 config is concerned. For example, there doesn't seem to be much about getting the mail from elsewhere to the Courier IMAP/POP server. In my case, I don't want outside forces pushing to my PC, I want my PC going to my ISP, fetching the mail and putting it in the right places, in the right condition that the IMAP server can use it. Then I want the IMAP server to keep it forever and not "accidentally" delete it just because it's been read or is old... stuff that you don't care about, because you want POP, but an indication of how sparse or disconnected the HowTos have been from my perspective (ask me how I ended up with 1.5 million files [mostly duplicates] in my /Maildir... better yet, don't ask - it's an agonizing tale that seems to have no end). Kevin (still blundering along) The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com