[95234] in RedHat Linux List
IMAP configuration, procmail, and other mail related items.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Cyr)
Fri Oct 16 04:06:35 1998
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 02:06:09 -0600
From: Colin Cyr <ccyr@sycore.ml.org>
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I'm starting to get very distraught over the sheer lack of documentation on
IMAP.
I'm installed the rpm that is in the RawHide dir perfectly fine.
In /usr/doc/???imap??? directory there is only a single README. There are no
man pages, howto's, entries in NAG/SAG/RHLFAQU.
The README just says, compile, ensure services file is up to date, entries are
in the inetd.conf and you're up and running.
Well, all of this is done, the service is responding, when I point an IMAP
client to retrieve my mail (Netscape until I have time to configure other).
It pulls every file that exists in my home dir.
First problem, All mail exists in /var/spool/mail/user, the shipping
configuration of IMAP is useless!
I'm just fed up, I love to find my way into getting these things going,
however the sheer lack of documentation is driving me up the wall.
On another front:
My main goal is such, if this doesn't seem possible please give me some
feedback.
I have 17-30 various mailboxes hiding in the wood work. The most common ones
are currently being pulled by fetchmail. (Some are POP3, others are IMAP4).
I would like to configure procmail to sort this fetch'd mail by the account it
is being retrieved from. This information is held in a few of the received
headers (Is is possible to decode on a regexp in procmail). It should then
file the message in the appropriate folder.
While working local to my machine I hope to use an IMAP aware X based client
(Any good ones? Netscape is too flaky). While away from the machine I'd use
PINE, IMP (WebBased IMAP Client), or other IMAP aware reader.
The other thing which I don't believe to be easily possible, is to have the
ability to send e-mail out such that it appears from a specific account. I.e.
I have my local domain on my machine which everything is currently sent as, I
have 9 different mailboxes with my ISP, 2 mailboxes at the University, etc etc.
If I'm replying to a message I received in the folder for user1@dom1.com, I
want atleast all of the header information in my reply to appear as if it is
coming from that user rather than mylocaluserid@mylocaldomain.org.
The other thing is how would someone provide completely virtual e-mail
accounts? I mean without creating accounts at teh shell level or in passwd
etc?
Thanks for all of the help.
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