Re: Too stupid for courier-imap, but uw-imapd works?
On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 22:21, Mario Vukelic wrote:
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>
> Hi,
>
> I've had uw-imapd forever, and it worked fine, except that with all this
> mail from the lists it got awfully slow. So I thought I'd try courier.
> I apt-get'd it, and search for docs. They were scarce, as it was said it
> should "just work".
> Well, it didn't. I'll repeat my steps and assumptions gained from the
> infor that was available. It would be nice if someone could tell me
> where I was wrong. My setup is Woody, Evolution as a client, remote mail
> comes from a pop account at ISP via fetchmail. Exim is running,
> configured to deliver local mail. I run a small home network, with other
> machines accessing mail on the imap server (which is my reason for imap
> in the first place)
>
> First I moved my $HOME/Mail directory, where uw-imapd stored its stuff,
> out of the way.
>
> *Assumption: Exim is not involved, nothing to be done
>
> *Assumption: per default courier-imap in debian uses pam
> authentification, which means that the login password is used as imap
> password
>
> *Assumption: generally bad since a sniffed imap password gives a login
> shell. But ok for first setup. Maybe later /etd/userdb to be used as per
> courier docs
>
> *Assumption: To retrieve mail from a remote machine when imap
> authenticates by pam, I need a regular account on the remote machine
>
> *Assumption: courier doesn't use inetd.conf, but hosts.allow/deny is
> honoured
>
> I ran then "maildirmake Mail" in $HOME. This was prolly bad, nothing I
> tried afterwards worked. I then ran into a posting in the mail archive
> that said "maildirmake Maildir" was the way to go.
>
> *Assumption: courier wants it called Maildir, not Mail
>
> After some fiddling around, I ended up with ADDRESS (or whatever it was
> called, sorry, I've already installe uw again :) in /etc/courier/imapd
> set to 127.0.0.1 (assumption: this would make imap get the mail from the
> local machine, where fetchmail runs), imap setup in Evolution was set to
> my username on the machine, the imap server was set to be localhost.
> Namespace overriding in the client was turned off
>
> I could then log in to the client, but only got an INBOX and a Trash
> folder. Evo didn't retrieve any mail, although /var/spool/mail/$USER was
> full.
>
> Any ideas?
> Also, how can I move over my old mails (delivered through uw-imapd) to
> courier?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance
>
>
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Thanks for all those helpful responses. I think I first will try to use
maildir boxes with uw-imapd as suggested by jaldhar@debian.org and see
if it helps. If it doesn't get faster, I'll try courier again.
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