Re: IMAP Server Requirement
On (20/01/06 13:57), Ropetin wrote:
> Clive Menzies wrote:
>
> >We had the same requirement, pulling in via pop3 and accessing via IMAP.
> >We used dovecot. I made some notes on the setup here:
> >http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk/selfhelp/MailServer.html
>
> I appreciate this and all the other great responses to my request. You
> are all most helpful. I followed these steps and got all the software
> installed and I think configured per your instructions, correcting a
> couple of probable transcription mistakes.
Please let me know what these are so I can correct them :)
> I ran fetchmail interactively and it grabbed 387 messages from the test
> account I'm using. I then configured my email client to access the IMAP
> account from Dovecot which pulled down 600 or so messages that the user
> account already had, but not the 387 test messages.
My immediate thought is: How did the 600 messages get into the user's
directory and is there possibly another mail directory where the test
messages are going? I seem to recall some minor wrinkles over
directories and I found using mutt locally on the server helped set up
the directories where I wanted them; sounds as though this needs to be
incorporated in the notes.
>
> I set fetchmail to run as a daemon every 2 minutes and sent a test
> message to the account. Almost immediately I started to get a string of
> error messages from the main SMTP server in both boxes;
>
> "This message is looping: it already has my Delivered-To line. (#5.4.6)"
>
> It seems that basically the message was ping-ponging backwards and
> forwards between the two boxes, with neither taking responsibility for it.
>
> I know I must be missing something obvious, its just this email thing is
> too confusing sometimes! Does anyone have any immediate suggestion as
> to what the issue might be before I give up and try another route?
Other than the above I'm not sure what the problem is; one of the
reasons for the notes is so I could replicate the setup more easily. It
is confusing; hopefully someone else can help. The Matt Doran page may
shed some light:
http://blogs.papercutsoftware.com/matt.doran/page/2/
Regards
Clive
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