-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF1dKyS9HxQb37XmcRArXIAJ4jcMz03kZoqTAtOqo9GE/GIXhQxQCg51Fs 4TT61lICPzG48vb7nMFoYGM= =KAdn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
