horde-imp and pop3 server locally

jorgeSallum · Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 7:45 pm Post subject: horde-imp and pop3 server locally

I would like to be able to read my local mail folders with horde-imp. What kind of mail server I could have locally?

rellik · n00b Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 8 Location: Texas

I currently use the horde system with imp, turba, and kronolith with qmail for smtp, vpopmail for virtual mailboxes and courier-imap to provide ssl imap support. I'll admit this configuration took a little while to get set up, but it is well worth it. SpamAssassin and ClamAV connect in very nicely into qmail-scanner, so spam and anti-virus scanning is all inline. These websites will help you get going: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml and http://www.lifewithqmail.com
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jorgeSallum · Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 2:30 am Post subject:

rellik,

thanks. I've read the instruction and it's working perfectly, but, now I would like to join all my e-mails I receive from mypop3.com through thunderbird to maildir (horde). Is it possible?

Yours, J.

rellik · n00b Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 8 Location: Texas

I have personally never set it up, but I believe fetchmail is the program you're looking for to grab other pop mail and deposit it on your local server. If you would want thunderbird to do it, a mail rule that either copies or moves all incoming mail on particular accounts to another "folder" (imap or thunderbird). But since I assume you would rather be able to see all of your mail using imp without having to first use thunderbird, fetchmail is probably the better option.
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jorgeSallum · Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 1:06 pm Post subject:

rellik, thanks again, that's very kind to tell about fetchmail. I know it but I never tried. At first I was thinking in make a link between to mailboxes, but I realized qmail (mbox) stores messages in single files and thunderbird use only one file for a box. So do you thing fetchmail would be able to take thunderbird mailbox file and convert it to .mailbox (qmail)? Or it sounds completely weird?

Thanks, J.

rellik · n00b Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 8 Location: Texas

I'm not sure if there is a utility that converts mbox (single file store) to a maildir (per-message file store) but someone has probably made one. Personally, I would just setup a mail forward from the other addresses to the address with the horde access to make things simple.
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