IMAP Server

[Matt Snell]

Just wanted to thank all for your suggestions on an IMAP server 
yesterday.  I selected Dovecot, it does everything I need now and if I 
ever need to do more, switching to Courier won't take much effort.

Summary of the experience:

The basic setup was pretty easy on my Etch box, kill the cron job that 
runs fetchmail and "apt-get install dovecot-imapd".  Edit 
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, add a valid protocol and restart the daemon. 
  I then renamed my mail directories to adhere to the requirements of 
the server (leading . in the filename).  Following that I took some time 
to re-org my mail dirs and then I updated my procmail recipes.  That's 
all folks, restart my fetchmail job and xtail the log to see if there's 
a problem.

Now I can use mutt or Thunderbird to access my mail from any machine on 
the LAN or off of it via an SSH tunnel.  The Mrs. won't have any problem 
checking the ebills folder for statements now (which was a *HUGE* 
motivating factor).

I *need* to mention the flexibility that both mutt and Thunderbird 
offered me.  I've been using mutt for a while and it's *extremely* 
tweaked out, things like being able to change address and GPG key based 
upon which folder I'm in is important to me.  Thanks to the efforts of 
the folks over @ Mozilla and some clever plugin writers I have *all* of 
the functionality I want in both clients (with some config of course). 
Truly Awesome.

Open source fanboy here.

Matt



Matt Snell wrote:
> Morning all,
> 
> 	I'm looking for help choosing an IMAP server for my own simple needs.
> I currently store my email in maildir format, I use fetchmail to retrieve it,
> procmail to filter it and mutt to read it.  If possible, I'd still like to
> use these tools and add Thunderbird (or any IMAP capable client) on
> Linux and Windows machines to access my mail trough an SSH tunnel.  If it
> matters, the server won't be facing the Internet.
> 
> 	Can anyone recommend an IMAP server that will allow me to do this?
> I'm hoping for something simple but effective.  If you need more information
> from me, please let me know.


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