Re: [Evolution] OT: Setting up a local mail server

["Leo Butler" <leo leobutler com>]

Dan Hensley wrote:

> I have 3 different POP accounts that I regularly check.  I'd like to
> turn my machine into a local server for these accounts so I can access
> e-mail from anywhere on my local network and also through my firewall
> for when I'm out of town.
>
> I believe what I need to do is set up an IMAP server and use fetchmail
> to download the POP e-mails to the IMAP server.  I believe I need some
> kind of mail agent to take the e-mail downloaded by fetchmail and put
> it in the right place for the IMAP server.
>
> What I've done so far is compile and install courier-imap.  I set up 3
> virtual users and verified that the server works.  That's it so far.
> I've been reading fetchmail, maildrop, and qmail documentation as
> well.
>
> If anyone could give me some pointers I'd appreciate it.

Greetings, Dan.

Your homework has put you on the right track.

My solution for this involves Postfix, fetchmail, Courier-IMAP
and SquirrelMail (for webmail).  I built this on top of Mandrake
8.1, and it's working flawlessly.  The only gotcha was disabling
a call to procmail as the MDA in the postfix config file, and
also enabling Maildir as the storage format.  Everything else
went basically pretty standard.

This page was a very good read when I was looking for info on
setting up my mail server:

http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/RH71-Postfix-Courier-Maildrop-IMAP/

The above link is on the postfix documentation page, which has
some other potentially useful information:

http://www.postfix.org/docs.html

Hope this helps,

- Leo