I'd say that you should _probably_ use exim instead... My setup here happens to be cyrus21-* packages + sasl2-bin + exim-tls + fetchmail-ssl + fetchmail-common. It isn't that hard... what I did was installed said packages, chown --recursive /var/run/saslauthd (might not be necessary anymore - was a bug in sasl2-bin) edited /etc/fetchmailrc appropriately, /etc/default/fetchmail and /etc/imapd.conf. Oh, and I added a shadow transport option to the exim.conf file (just one of my niceties, not strictly needed, we only put servers into businesses, you see...) (attaching all relevant files)... You probably want to change all instances of /home/cyrus to /var/spool/cyrus or whatever the default is (I forget, but you'll see it when you install it). And you will probably also want to run eximconfig and just use the shadow transport section, if you see such a need arising. Then you'll have to run cyradm --auth login localhost (read the cyradm manpage) to add the appropriate mailboxes. Cyrus is probably the best IMAP server out there, and I'd recommend you get used to it. It is quite a step forward from the UW-IMAP server... Additionally, you can place a .procmailrc file in your home directory, which I believe exim honours. Also, you will want to change the entries in the /etc/fetchmailrc file to reflect your setup. We've gone for a multi-drop only because we have peculiar circumstances (ISP charging us too much per mailbox). You just have to add more than one server entry to get all the accounts... Hope it helps, Michael van der Kolff A Perfect PC Gymea, Sydney, Australia BTW, I'm only using Outlook express 'cause my linux box (excl. server) ain't turned on and I couldn't be bothered doing so (you _could_ find out such information from the headers, so I'm just telling you in advance). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Bleazard" <jbleazard@sympatico.ca> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 11:38 AM Subject: IMAP + fetchmail + procmail > I've found a lot of good documentation about IMAP, fetchmail and > procmail individually. However, I'm trying to figure out how to make > them all work together and I'm afraid I don't quite get it. I've tried > some Google searches and found myself overwhelmed with information that > didn't really apply to my situation. If anyone could point me toward > some good documents or offer a few pointers, I'd sure appreciate it. > I'm just looking to download from three POP3 accounts and serve e-mail > to two users (myself and my wife), so I don't need a large capacity > setup. > > Read further if you want to know more details of what I want to do. > > We have a (modest :-) home network of four machines scattered around the > house, running a mix of Debian and Windows. I'm building a fifth to act > as a central file server, and I'd like to put our e-mail on there as > well. > > Our ISP has their e-mail set up with POP access for downloading and an > SMTP server for sending. Pretty standard stuff. Their setup guide just > tells us to configure these servers directly in Outlook or Netscape. > This works okay, but it pretty well ties my e-mail to one machine, mail > program and/or operating system on our network. > > I figure the best way to centrailize our mail is to set up an IMAP > server. I know that I need fetchmail to bring our mail in from our > ISP. I also know that I can use procmail to filter incoming messages to > different folders (for example, I want debian-user messages to go to > their own directory). It's a DSL connection that's active pretty much > all the time, so I don't need to worry about triggering it manually. I > can just let it grab stuff every so often. > > Unfortunately, I can't grasp how to get everything working together. > Does fetchmail automagically filter things through procmail once the > latter is set up? How do I get procmail to play nice with IMAP > folders? Does it matter if I use mbox or maildir format? > > Also, I'm not sure how to set up exim, or if there's another alternative > that would be better suited for what I want to do. I've noticed that if > I get any mail from cron it sits in my local mailbox on each machine, so > I get the new mail notice when I log in to that machine. It would be > nice if all the machines on the network could send stuff to my central > IMAP inbox. > > Do I need to really worry about remote mail routing, or should I just > tell my mail client to connect directly to my ISP's SMTP server (the way > it is now)? With only two users, I can't really think of a reason I'd > need to send mail internally other than messages from cron, and they > don't use my mail client anyway. > > Our ISP gives us up to 6 e-mail accounts. One thing I'd like to do is > set up one or more of them so that any mail sent to that address will be > forwarded to both of us. My thinking is to create a dummy user account > that receives the e-mail from the special address, then that account's > procmail settings forward the message to both of our regular accounts. > I want two copies, not just a single IMAP inbox that we both access > (then we get questions like "did you read that? Can I delete it?") > > The reason I want to use procmail is I'm hoping once I get that set up, > I can then do some intelligent filtering on messages. Some things > should go to me, some things to my wife, and some things to both of us. > > Well, that's about all I can think of so far. I'm still in the planning > stages, but I'm hoping that good planning will lead to easier > implementation. > > Thanks in advance, > Jason > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > > >
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