Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)
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On 02/16/07 08:29, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:01:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 02/13/07 21:45, Chris Bannister wrote:
>>> from your mail data flow diagram: (plus your IMAP server is
>>> haggis)
>>>
>>> fetchmail -> postfix -> SpamAssassin -> maildrop -> Maildir
>>>
>>> All those programs run on haggis?
>> Sure. And the Courier imapd. And Icedove and Iceweasel and
>> PostgreSQL and X and cups and a pot-load of other stuff.
>
> I didn't think you were supposed to run X on servers. Hang on, Icedove
> and Iceweasel ... is that also a workstation?
Yes, it's my home PC, not a production server.
>> Are you surprised?
>
> Didn't think haggis could stomach it. :-? Not surprised, just thinking
Sigh... [slowly shakes head]
> of the overall picture. I have a couple spare machines, and want to run
> PostgreSQL + Apache + PHP + mail + firewall and thought that I read
> somewhere that it was not a good idea to have them all on the one
> machine. I have an old laptop which I will have a go at using it as some
> sort of thin-client but also able to be used as a 'laptop'.
If you're behind a firewall, all should be fine.
The "rule" against putting X on servers is based on "don't put
anything on a server that you don't need". The reasoning is two-
fold:
1. Security: more "stuff" means a bigger hackable surface area.
2. Resources: why waste RAM and CPU on a gooey, when the machine's
task is to process data?
However, this is my box.
>>> Changed to maildir ages ago. Never regretted it. Simple as
>> Mutt can directly read Maildir folders? (I don't see why it
>> shouldn't, but it just never occurred to me.)
>
> set mbox_type=Maildir
>
>> Procmail? You probably like Perl, too.
>
> Well, umm, there's heaps of recipes out there ...
Line noise is what it is.
>>>> set imap_user=XXXX set spoolfile=imap://haggis/INBOX
>>> Right. So postfix will need be informed.
>> Huh? Informed of what?
>
> local delivery? say from logcheck. mutt depends on an MTA, which
Postfix already knows what the local domain is. That's a separate
configuration issue from whether it passes the email to maildrop or
appends it to /var/spool/mail/<user>.
> delivers to /var/spool/mail/<user> but set spoolfile=imap://haggis/INBOX
> ... <scratch head> ... ah! muttprofile? ... I think I *need* a map.
>
>>>> set folder=imap://haggis/INBOX. set move=no set copy=yes set
>>>> record=imap://haggis/INBOX/Sent
>>> So everything is under INBOX? So a cp ~/.Mail/ ~/.Maildir/ won't
>>> work.
>> On my system, INBOX is virtual. Think of it as an IMAP construct.
>
> I'll try.
>
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