On Tuesday 07 December 2004 13:38, jean-Noël Chardron wrote:
At present I get email directly on my laptop in /var/spool/mail/* through uucp. I'd like to get the email in the same directory on my desktop (alfred), and then run a mail server on the destop and collect the email on my laptop (william) (or on other computers on my two little home LANs, ethernet and WiFi).
I was advised that dovecot was a good imap server for this purpose (I tried cyrus-imapd, but decided it was too complicated), so I'm running dovecot on alfred (my desktop),
If I understand, the mail arrives on Laptop (William) (through uucp) so the mail boxes are on William so You must install dovecot on William.
At present email is arriving at william (my laptop). _I want to change this_ so that email arrives at alfred (my desktop) - I have no difficultly setting that up - and then dovecot running as imap server on alfred allows me to retrieve the email when I am on william.
Netherless If you want dovecot running on Desktop (Alfred), you need setup up the arrival of mail on Alfred.
You cannot have mailboxes on alfred and dovecot on William (and vice versa)
Quite. I have dovecot working on alfred. When I am able to retrieve email from alfred to william, I shall change my uucp setting so that email comes to alfred's /var/spool/mail/ .
the imap server reside on the same side of the smtpd server that's my advice.
I am afraid you have misunderstood my question.
I cannot presently retrieve email from alfred to william using either fetchmail or KMail. That is my problem.
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