Re: IMAP Server Requirement
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 17:21 +0000, Hagakure wrote:
> Ropetin wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > What software do I need to use to make this happen? I've read about
> > a number of different pieces of software but can't figure out what
> > would be best. I don't want you to walk me through it step by step,
> > just point me in the right direction and give me a push!
> >
>
> Hiya,
>
> This is relatively simple. You just set up a IMAP server (personally I
> prefer Postfix/Amavis/Courier based) then user Fetchmail to collect
> mail from the POP server and have your users collect it from the IMAP box.
This is also what I've set up for my "small business", adding
SpamAssassin and excepting Amavis.
Works like a charm. You can set up fetchmail as a daemon or to
run via cron.
The only downside is that the POP passwords are in cleartext in
the .fetchmailrc file(s). File permissions will prevent other
people from reading the file, but, presuming the users all run
Windows and aren't in the habit of editing text files in Linux,
you'll have to write some network routine to allow them to change
that password.
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