Hans du Plooy wrote:

Hilton, where are you based? If you're close by I can come over one evening and give you a hand. I can do this in my sleep :-) Ooooh, I 'hate' you being able to do this in your sleep :)) Though I'd certainly appreciate a hand here in Simon's Town.

Tip: babysteps. If you do it all at once and something doesn't work the way it should, you'll waste time trying to figure out what's going wrong. Babysteps is the way I approached it but it is just to get the bits configured in the correct order and in theory working, before trying it in a production environment and ending up losing email. I just cannot afford to lose any email, as the one I lose might be 'the' one.

First get your postfix running - this is almost perfect by default, but do change how your mail will be delivered. If you want to use procmail look at the mailbox_command parameter in /etc/postfix/main.cf Procmail will chuck the mail in /var/spool/mail/ in mbox format if it doesn't find a global or user .procmailrc - that's ok for testing. You mean configure the MTA via YAST that seems to incorporate Fetchmail? I have done that and changed a little here and a little there by entering the bits I know or think I know. I have thankfully kept a written record, so I can send it to you. I'm seeing if I can 'keep it simple' and not add another hoop for the mail to jump through before it hits the IMAP store.

Then get courier-imap going (in 9.2 it's broken, you have to run the YOU update first to fix). I just have the package imap installed and I do not know whether it is Courier-IMAP, Cyrus-IMAP or what. I have had a look under the technical and dependencies tab etc and also found nothing, to my knowledge. Where/how would I look to find out?

Shout back if you have that working, I'll give you the next step. Silence, your next step is to possibly visit, maybe for lunch?

-- The pleading Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================