Brian, Thanks! Your instructions worked very well for me. All that remains for me to do is test the thing from outside my LAN.
Richard On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 15:43, Brian Hanks wrote: > 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. > > -- > -- > Slainte, > Richard S. Crawford > AIM: Buffalo2K / Y!: rscrawford / ICQ: 11640404 > http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com > "It is only with our heart that we can see clearly. What is essential > is > invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery > > -- -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford AIM: Buffalo2K / Y!: rscrawford / ICQ: 11640404 http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com "It is only with our heart that we can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list