Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 18/12/09 20:23, Mail Lists wrote:
> On 12/18/2009 06:27 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>    
>> On 17/12/09 20:29, Mail Lists wrote:
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>    
>>      
>>>      Ok, I give up! Where can I find instructions, hopefully step by
>>>      step, to install IMAP with a local server? That sounds like the
>>>      solution to this problem and a few others.
>>>
>>>      Bob
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>      
>
>
>    I dont have a walk-through howto so I will wing it .. I will assume
> for now that you will not be using or running your own hosted
> sendmail/postfix server (that is a little more involved) and all you
> want is an imap server to store local mail.
>
>    1) As root edit  /etc/dovecot.conf and make sure you have a directive
> to use maildir and store it in your home directory under Maildir (or
> whatever you want to use)
>
>   e.g a line such as:
>
>        mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
>
>
>    2) service dovecot start
>
>    3) chkconfig dovecot on
>
>   Then in your thunderbird just create a new account -
>     server will be 127.0.0.1
>         (or whatever the IP or hostname on your local network the server
> is running on)
>
>      user name (your login on the computer)
>
>      connection security - STARTTLS
>
>    Thats it. Create whatever folders you need and then use them.
>
>    *** Minor Subtlety:
>
>    You may find (likely will) that thunderbird will complain about the
> ssl certificate being self signed by an unknown authority - for now just
> tell it its ok - to remove this you'll need to create a better cert -
> which is signed by a known certificate authority.
>
>    I suggest a free server certificate from startcom - which is probably
> your best bet. They are quick and easy and thunderbird and firefox have
> them listed already as an acceptable CA (certficate authority). There
> are others but most cost money - avoid things like cacert.org as they
> are not known by any browser.
>
>
>     Go here:
>
>     http://www.startssl.com/
>
>    Once you get the server certificate from them - you'll have 2 files -
> a key file (ssl.key) and a xxx.crt file.
>
>     You'll ;likely need to convert them to pem format using something like
>
>    openssl x509 -inform der -in xxx.crt -out xxx.pem
>
>     The edit the dovecot.conf file again and look for the lines
>
>    ssl_cert_file
>      and
>    ssl_key_file ...
>
>    Change the to point to your lovely new certificate and restart dovecot
> (service dovecot restart).
>
>    Best of luck.  Look in /var/log/maillog for hints of any problems ...
>
>    
>
>     gene
>
>     Thanks for your suggestions. I intend to try as you have outlined
>     later this morning.
>
>     Much appreciated.
>
>     Bob
>