local imap server using fetchmail
Lovell Mcilwain
lovell.mcilwain at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 02:59:02 UTC 2005
Bryan Liles wrote:
> Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
>
>> I have installed fetchmail and cyrus imap rpms on my machine in the
>> hopes to be able to configure them so that I can run a local imap
>> server that downloads my remote e mail and then serves it via IMAP on
>> my local machine.
>>
>> But I can't seem to be able to figure out how to configure them so
>> they work together. I have been trying to do this for months and have
>> not had any success. Can anyone point me to a site or howto that
>> shows me how to do this step my step? Most of the sites I have seen
>> show me how to do this from a compiled version of both but I was not
>> able to compile and install them properly which is why I moved to rpms.
>
>
>
> I find dovecot much easier to work with as opposed to cyrus. Maybe you
> can give that a try.
>
Unfortunately I started with cyrus before I got to read this email and now I think Im to far into it
to turn from it now. So I am trying to do this systematically. Right now it seems I can telnet to
the the IMAP server but I can't seem to connect to it with my client. When I connect to it via
telnet I get the following response:
[lmcilwain at localhost ~]$ telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK localhost.localdomain Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.12-Invoca-RPM-2.2.12-6.fc4 server ready
But when I try to connect to localhost via my mail client it tells me that its a failed connection
after specifying my password.
Whats so weird is that I didn't specify a password to telnet to it via the command prompt. Any
ideas of what I maybe doing wrong?
>
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