Anders, On Thursday 20 July 2006 08:32, Anders Johansson wrote:
I'm confused, I thought you were talking about IMAP.
The solution I detailed will store all your email in cyrus IMAP, and you can connect to it to read your email whether you're logged in locally or not (firewall permitting). The /var/spool/mail storage is taken out of the equation, and fetchmail is only used for putting things into cyrus, not for actually reading the email, for that you just connect to IMAP using your mail client. After all, one of the major points of IMAP is to have the email stored in one single location, instead of all over the place
But if you really want to keep the /var/spool/mail storage, then the solution suggested by Joanne would do it for you I am sorry to be jumping back on this thread so late, I was tied up for a day.
What I want, and I realize there are more then one need being expressed on this thread and I am happy for that, but what, I, want is a solution where of the 30 user accounts I have on this SuSE 9.1 Pro box, some 3 or 4 can log on under full KDE and use Kmail connected to their /var/spool/mail files to read, save and delete mail. I want the other 25 odd users to be able to log on from remote machines, either Red Hat Linux or more often OS X and use a local mailer to POP or IMAP (I do not care which) their mail. The same users will be logged in and the others will be remote. This will not change in most cases. If there was an easy soution where they could do both fine but I think I am safe to say that it will be a finite set of all the user accounts that log in directly. I do understand that you are talking about settin up POP or IMAP and using that for both the logged in and remote mail accounts, and if that is the easier fix, fine, but I was hoping to put in the remote system and switch users over to it slowly leaving the rest using the /var/spool/mail file. Thanks for all the help. john -- 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