On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 11:18 -0800, seberino spawar navy mil wrote:
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.
<grin> That's the beauty of TCP/IP and sockets!
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.
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