local imap server using fetchmail
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Aug 29 05:44:30 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 22:59 -0400, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
>
> 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?
----
shame on me for not mentioning...
Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
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Craig
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