[gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

[gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

[Anthony Roy]

Hi all,

The short question (for those of you who can't be bothered to read the detail!):

What is a good IMAP server to set up on Gentoo?
How can I automatically move email from several pop servers into an
appropriate inbox on the IMAP server?

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The details:

I do not know very much about the mail subsystem in Linux, and so
would appreciate some help in setting up a mail system on my Gentoo
server.

1) I currently have a few pop email accounts with my ISP and others
(eg gmail), and wish to retain these accounts, as I use them for
different purposes and people already have these addresses.

2) I have a server and three client PC's set up at home. The server is
Gentoo, and the client machines are Windows XP, Kubuntu and Apples OSX
respecitvely.

3) I want to be able to access the same mail and mail folders from all
machines, and the state of those mailboxes be mirrored on all the
other machines.

4) I want to filter junk mail using SpamAssassin.

Hence, it seems to me that I want to set up an IMAP server to manage
the mailboxes and give the functionality required in (3) above. I also
need some way of downloading mail from the remote pop servers and load
them into the IMAP inbox. (4) can wait until later!

Cheers,

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[gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

[Anthony Roy]

Hi all,

The short question (for those of you who can't be bothered to read the detail!):

What is a good IMAP server to set up on Gentoo?
How can I automatically move email from several pop servers into an
appropriate inbox on the IMAP server?

-------------------------------------------------------

The details:

I do not know very much about the mail subsystem in Linux, and so
would appreciate some help in setting up a mail system on my Gentoo
server.

1) I currently have a few pop email accounts with my ISP and others
(eg gmail), and wish to retain these accounts, as I use them for
different purposes and people already have these addresses.

2) I have a server and three client PC's set up at home. The server is
Gentoo, and the client machines are Windows XP, Kubuntu and Apples OSX
respecitvely.

3) I want to be able to access the same mail and mail folders from all
machines, and the state of those mailboxes be mirrored on all the
other machines.

4) I want to filter junk mail using SpamAssassin.

Hence, it seems to me that I want to set up an IMAP server to manage
the mailboxes and give the functionality required in (3) above. I also
need some way of downloading mail from the remote pop servers and load
them into the IMAP inbox. (4) can wait until later!

Cheers,

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

[Anthony Roy]

> You will want to check out the gentoo mailfiltering gateway guide
> at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xml which will help
> you set up imap, spamassassin and more.

Thanks, this should be a good place to start for phase 2 of my setup -
i.e. anti-virus and spam filtering.

> Moving mails from one server to another can be different depending
> on your level of access to the servers but you probably should be able
> to drag and drop them from one inbox to another using a common
> mail client such as mozilla thunderbird.

I need to do this automatically. It looks like fetchmail may be what I
am after here.

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

[Jean Magnan de Bornier]

Le 28 décembre à 13:05:48 Anthony Roy <antroy@gmail.com> écrit notamment:

| I need to do this automatically. It looks like fetchmail may be what I
| am after here.

Yes, I'm using fetchmail -> postfix -> dovecot (imap server); but my 
mail server is not a gentoo box though, I use a clark-connect-3.0 for
that (a server distro based on fedora).

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

[Mattias Merilai]

Anthony Roy wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>The short question (for those of you who can't be bothered to read the detail!):
>
>What is a good IMAP server to set up on Gentoo?
>How can I automatically move email from several pop servers into an
>appropriate inbox on the IMAP server?
>  
>

You will want to check out the gentoo mailfiltering gateway guide
at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xml which will help
you set up imap, spamassassin and more.
Moving mails from one server to another can be different depending
on your level of access to the servers but you probably should be able
to drag and drop them from one inbox to another using a common
mail client such as mozilla thunderbird.


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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

[Anthony Roy]

Thanks for the input. For reference if anyone stumbles across this
thread looking for the same information, I found the following
extremely helpful:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56633

Cheers,

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

[Alexander Skwar]

Anthony Roy schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> The short question (for those of you who can't be bothered to read the detail!):
> 
> What is a good IMAP server to set up on Gentoo?

Any. I like dovecot. Easy to install and full of features.

> How can I automatically move email from several pop servers into an
> appropriate inbox on the IMAP server?

With fetchmail. It should be configured to pass the mails to
the MDA procmail, which can then also use spam filters like
SpamAssassin.


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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

[Matthias Bethke]

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Hi Anthony,
on Wednesday, 2005-12-28 at 10:38:12, you wrote:
> 1) I currently have a few pop email accounts with my ISP and others
> (eg gmail), and wish to retain these accounts, as I use them for
> different purposes and people already have these addresses.

As Alexander has pointed out, fetchmail is fine for that. That is, it
has a bad reputation  with respect to code quality but I haven't checked
as it hasn't ever given me any trouble. Maybe there are alternatives,
but loads of people use it.

> [...]
> 3) I want to be able to access the same mail and mail folders from all
> machines, and the state of those mailboxes be mirrored on all the
> other machines.

Yup, an IMAP server seems to be the tool of choice here. At work I use
dovecot which works well together with postfix. It's a bit of work to
set up but it has sufficient documentation for that. I don't know of
anything easier, in fact I haven't tried much else except for some Cyrus
thing that came wit SuSE and that I didn't like.

> 4) I want to filter junk mail using SpamAssassin.

No idea really...I'd suggest to just install it and have a look into the
README(s). Many people use it with all kinds of MTAs---I haven't.

cheers!
	Matthias

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