On Sunday 29 May 2005 03:34, Jim Flanagan wrote:
Thanks Anders. But I guess I did not fully state my question. I have been bouncing back and forth between both installs, trying to configure posftix on the new one. Now I have mail in both /var/spool/mail dirs, some on one, others on the other.
Is there a way to merge these?
Sure, it's a relatively simple mail format. Just make sure no programs are
running that use the spool file, and then do
cat
Also, I have quite a few quesitons in setting up postfix. I notice Ken says configuring postfix is a bear. If its a bear to him, I don't really know what to call it myself.
Depends on your needs. Postfix was designed with two basic design criteria: security and ease of configuration. For a "normal" mail server, it's very simple to set up. The default SUSE configuration will get you a long way towards the goal, and then with a few minor modifications, you are there, unless you have specific needs (high performance, virtual users, special authentication setups etc)
I've been using kmail, which I quite like. But, as I'm away from my computer for times, I use uw-imap and squirrelmail to check the list. From time to time I log in, get all mail into kmail, and go from there. Not really what I want. Having access to only some mail while I'm away. I like kmail's filters, easy to set up. I've never gotten to procmail or anyting like that.
I use cyrus imap, and do all filtering on the imap server using a sieve script. Works very well and isn't hard to do, although as far as I know there is no good GUI way of creating the sieve script so I do it by hand in a text editor, but the syntax is simple.
I just did today get my 9.3 install to all me to send mail to myself from outside using sasl, amazingly using yast/etc/sysconfig editor. Haven't got TLS working yet, still working on that. Haven't figured out how to send mail to the list (or others for that matter )from outside, and without being a relay for others.
Authentiated SMTP is one way. Another is to use squirrelmail, since then you would actually be sending mail from the local machine, so you won't have to open up postfix to allow relaying from outside
What I really want to accomplish (I think) is to have an imap setup where I can see all my mail, some kept from a year or so back, just like I can logged in locally with kmail. I believe courier is one way to go with that. But I'm unclear how to set up something (procmail?) to get the mail from /var/log/mail to /home/me, hopefully sorted in the right folders.
That is one option, to use procmail to get the mail to your home folder. Another is to do what I do and store everything directly in cyrus imap. In suse this is very easy to do, you basically have to set POSTFIX_MDA to "cyrus" in /etc/sysconfig/postfix and run SuSEconfig --module postfix, then read /usr/share/doc/packages/cyrus-imapd/README.SuSE on how to create your users in cyrus, create the ones you need, and you're done
Can someone point me to a step by step guide to this? I've read some of the guides at postfix.org which are very helpful. But, I only have less than 10 users here so I'd like to stay with the default suse packages if possible. Or I could use one of Anders N's recent compiles if that saves me a bunch of trouble.
I think those builds are just to use mysql as an authentication backend