Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 19/12/09 05:11, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> 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:
>>>>      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)
>>

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>>    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
>>
>

    Ok, I've installed Dovecot, made some changes to the config. file
    and started it. Then told gmail I wanted to "enable" IMAP. Although
    I have a "wildblue" address they gave up their mail servers and
    shunted everyone over to google! Not the best deal for users perhaps
    but I had no choice. Rural users are stuck without CATV or Telco DSL
    internet service so the satellite providers have no competition.

    Anyway now that I've done this the system is dumping everything it
    has on me, presently 4091 trash files! Hopefully that is all,
    probably ~7k messages in total.

    I still don't understand how this works but I will in pretty short
    order I guess? Where are these messages being saved? On my F-12
    computer somewhere in Dovecot I hope.

    What do I have to configure in another computer to access the IMAP
    messages? Do I simply add an IMAP user to Thunderbird, the email
    program I have been using for some time. If the messages are stored
    in my computer, other computers need to look there and connect via
    my LAN [wired and wireless]. I'm already in over my head despite
    reading a lot of instructions on how to set this up!.

    Any help is appreciated.

    Bob

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