Re: [Evolution] need advice on migrating from fetchmail/procmail/mutt system

[seberino spawar navy mil]

Ron

Thanks so much for your email.  You won't believe this
but your set up seems to be almost exactly what I have.
I even have a remote mail relay that I used just like you.
I also use Courier-IMAP in other systems.

It never occurred to me that I could run Courier-IMAP
on the same box as I run Evolution.  That is beautiful!!
I don't know why I thought Evolution client must be on a
different machine.

Chris


On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:46:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 09:34 -0800, seberino spawar navy mil wrote:
> > I am subscribed to a ton of mailing lists and get a constant
> > river of emails coming into my current fetchmail/procmail/mutt
> > MAILDIR system.
> >
> > I want to move to Evolution talking IMAP to my remote mail
> > server now.  I'd like Evolution to put emails into **same**
> > MAILDIR directories as fetchmail/procmail currently does.
> >
> > The problem is that I don't understand very well why/how
> > Evolution puts emails into folders.  I cannot just
> > "learn as I go" because I may lose emails in the learning
> > process!!!
> >
> > Also, it appeared that Evolution was putting emails into
> > //different// non-MAILDIR directories there for a moment.
> >
> > Because I use email constantly, I need to set up Evolution
> > immediately PERFECTLY which is not realistic!?!?
> >
> > Any advice on a graceful way to ease the transition to
> > Evolution would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I use these, and it works extremely well:
>   fetchmail
>   postfix
>   SpamAssassin
>   maildrop  # nice server-side filtering
>   Courier-IMAP
>
> Now, I can use any MUA I want: pine, Evo, Mutt, Sylpheed, webmail,
> kmail, Mozilla, etc.
>
> Even though I use Debian, and this is RH -specific, I found it very
> easy to set everything up.
> http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/RH90-Postfix-Courier-Maildrop-IMAP/
>
> On my box, a cron job fires off fetchmail every 5 minutes, which,
> as you know, grabs the email.  It passes the mail to postfix, which
> filters it thru SA, and then gives it to maildrop, which puts it
> into the proper ~/Maildir folder.  This is independent of whether
> courier-IMAP is running or not.  IMAP, though, is how the MUA gets
> the mail.
>
> Note also that I use postfix's relayhost to send mail out to my
> ISP's smtp server.  Thus, I just have to tell each MUA to SMTP
> mail to my own box, which then sends the mail out to the ISP.
> Really sweet.
>
> HTH
>
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