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



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