Quoting Sandy Drobic <suse-linux-e@japantest.homelinux.com>:
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
Forgot to mention. I'm running Washington IMAP and use fetchmail, to get the mail from my ISP. Can fetchmail be used with Courier or Cyrus IMAP?
Fetchmail can be used with Courier IMAP. Don't know about Cyrus.
The Imap service doesn't have anything to do with fetchmail. It's postfix that deals with fetchmail. Fetchmail "fetches" your mails from the various pop servers and dumps them in the mail queue for postfix to pick them up. Postfix delivers these mails to the local mailboxes or relays them to the destination if postfix is configured that way. Postfix uses the standard transport to deliver the mails, usually that transport is configured to pass the mails to the amavisd for spam and virus checking or directly to the imap service.
If you can't get imap to work the first thing to check is the logfiles. /var/log/messages /var/log/mail.*
If you use saslauthd to check authentication you might need to configure and start saslauthd as well.
Sandy
It doesn't have to. Fetchmail can write messages directly to an MDA (e.g., Procmail or Maildrop), bypassing the MTA (e.g., Postfix). Or it can use the LMTP protocol thru a Unix socket (Cyrus IMAP server supports this). RTFM for more details. Jeffrey