Re: [gentoo-user] Mail systems

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:54:12 +0200
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:

> OK, sorry, I remember now why I gave up using opera!
>
> What you can do is setting up a mail server, (postfix, exim, qmail) as an
> imap server on your machine.

You are confused. postfix, exim and qmail are MTA's - they speak smtp.
They do not store mail, they pass it to another smtp server of an LDA 
(local delivery agent).

I think that the appropriate advice is:

Have procmail deliver the mail to an imap mail store appropriate for an
imap server of your choice. Options are cyrus, courier, dovecot and
others. Then you can configure both opera and pine (or any other imap
capable email program) to access the mail via your choice of imap
server.

Your delivery path is:

ISP pop server->fetchmail->procmail->imap store

the path to access the mail is

imap store->imap server->opera
                                                |
                                                ------> pine
                                                |
                                                -----> other imap client 

Pretty well any email client does imap, including thunderbird,
evolution, outlook (and express), mutt, balsa et al.

An imap setup makes it easy to play with email clients until you find
the right one, because everything remains on the server until you delete
it.


PS cyrus is very robust but harder to set up. 




>Fetchmail keeps its business as before, now
> feeding your mail server; you can point opera to your server.
>
> Procmail would not be used in this case, but you can organize folders
> within opera...
>
> Pine would still be able to read mail from your server
>
> hth,
> --
>   Jean

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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>

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