Everything you speak of is very possible. In fact, I have been running
a very similar setup for the better part of a year on my RH 7.3 machine.
I'll run through the steps/components at a very high level:
1. Configure fetchmail to pull your mail from as many accounts as you
want and dump it to a local mbox account. For example, I am pulling
hotmail, my work account, and my ISP account and dropping them all into
my local user account. Make sure you start fetchmail with every reboot
by adding an entry to /etc/rc.local.
2. Install Evolution and point it at the local mbox account.
3. Install the apache webserver with SSL support (RPM or tar ball).
4. Install the SquirrelMail RPMs.
5. Edit /etc/xinetd.d/imap. Change to "disable = no". Run "service
xinetd restart".
This will allow you to do everything you want, but you do have to
remember to close Evolution before you leave the house. Otherwise, it
will continue to pull the mail out of the mbox account and hide it in
its own files.
Additionally, if you have you own static IP and registered domain, you
can easily activate ipop3 and create your own e-mail addresses (i.e.
user.domain).
There are tons of good documents at www.tldp.org that will help, but
none of them are going to give you step by step. Just let me know which
pieces you would like assistance with and I'll help.
As with everything PC related, there are multiple ways to accomplish
similar things, so if anyone knows a better way, please share.
I hope this helps,
Brian Hanks
Message: 1
Subject: Making IMAP happen
From: "Richard S. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Seamus the Miracle Penguin
Date: 20 Jan 2003 12:58:48 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Currently I pull e-mail in from my ISP's POP3 server and put it into an
mbox folder on my computer so that I can read it from either Evolution
or Mutt.
The next thing I'd like to do is set up an IMAP server on my computer so
that I can...
1. Pull mail in from my ISP's POP3 server as before;
2. Read my mail with Mutt when logging into my computer remotely
with an SSH client;
3. Read my mail with Evolution when I'm sitting at my computer; and
4. Install Squirrel Mail onto my computer so I can read my mail
via Mozilla (or *gasp* IE) when I'm at a remote computer that
I can't SSH from.
I know this is possible, for all things are possible with Linux. But
how can I get started? I've read the RH documentation but it seems a
bit thin on getting started with this sort of thing.
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