Red Hat 9 to FC2 and email

[Burn Alting]

Hi Again,

Well a little bit more reading and I have solved my b. problem - rather
than playing around with sendmail - oh for a GUI interface to
sendmail!!!! - I switched to the postfix MTA and made the simple change
- all new e-mail is delivered to the Cyrus IMAP system.

My question is now, how do I convert outstanding e-mail in
/var/spool/mail?

Thanks
Burn


On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 22:40, Burn Alting wrote:
> Hi peoples,
> 
> I just installed FC2 onto my system which was running Redhat 9.0 (RH9)
> 
> On the RH9 system I used to serve some users e-mail accounts using pop3.
> As these were casual Windows users, I'd run fetchmail to collect their
> e-mail from the ISP and then their e-mail would wait in
> /var/spool/mail/user_name until they checked their e-mail from their
> Windows PC. Their PC's would send their e-mail directly to the ISP's
> smtp server so I didn't configure sendmail or postfix.
> 
> With the change to my system to FC2, I discovered that pop3 is now
> managed by the Cyrus IMAP mailer system. I worked out how to create
> their mailboxes and login via cyrus but I am at a loss to find out how
> to
> 	a. Convert their existing /var/spool/mail/xxx mailboxes
> 	to the Cyrus system
> and
> 	b. Given they are casual users, I want to still use
> 	fetchmail to get their mail off the ISPs' system, so
> 	how do I get any new mail into the Cyrus system
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Burn