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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:22 am    Post subject: virt-mail-howto.xml-how to test imap server Reply with quote

I am following this guide, keep in mind my networking skills are very weak.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml

I just finshed starting these services as described early in the guide
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Code Listing 3.3: Start the courier services you need.

# /etc/init.d/courier-imapd start
# /etc/init.d/courier-imapd-ssl start
# /etc/init.d/courier-pop3d start
# /etc/init.d/courier-pop3d-ssl start


then it says to test what I just did
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Start up your favorite mail client and verify that all connections you've started work for receiving and sending mail. Now that the basics work, we're going to do a whole bunch of stuff at once to get the rest of the system running. Again, please verify that what we've installed already works before progressing.


how do I test if those indivdual services are working correctly?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 7:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you a bit light on skills then just use your favourite email program. Config it with a test account. Start by setting up IMAP and then secure IMAP to check for email. Then test the POP and secure POP. If you don't get any errors then great.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The guide pretty much just holds your hand, which I need. Now it is assumbing I know how to do a whole lot. To test these services, don't I need to add an account for both imap and pop to my server? Then once the account is added, then I can configure thunderbird to log in?

I have no idea how to add a test account to my server, any direction on doing this would be appreciated.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hate this whole virtual email plus every possible add-on in the world approach. However, it is laudible to encourage checks along the way. As most people _will_ break the thing along the way.

How about just running netstat -tunlp and see if the services are listening on the ports. 110 is POP3 and 143 is IMAP. You can check for the secure versions too if you are planning to use those.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks for the suggestion. I ended up using the telnet commands to the ports. They seem to be open.

Thanks for alll of your time and help :-)

question: the main reason I am doing this project is I wanted a way to store all of my emails in one place(I thought that is what imap does). Ideally I just want to forward all of my business emails from godaddy to my imap server. Then be able to access them from either my winodws or linux box using thunderbird. Is using this tutorial overkill for what I need to do? Is their a simpler way?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The set-up is a bit much for that purpose. I'd say use Postfix, because I like it and you get decent level of support/knowledge here.

By all means use Courier for IMAP. I use Dovecot as a rule except on 64 bit as it gets a bit funky.

You can probably cope without making the users virtual, without MySQL, without TLS/SASL.

I'd say anti-spam is a good idea. I've used SpamAssassin, Razor, DCC, Pyzor as a combo but I'm leaning towards DSPAM these days.

You might want to take a look at the Gentoo wiki for something that more fits the bill.
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