Re: [SLE] email services frustration

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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 01:37:56 +0200
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com

Fri, 01 Oct 2004, by bronto@csd-bes.net:

> I'm getting a SuSE 9.1 installation ready to be used as a mail server for a
> client.
>
> I've done the complete 9.1 installation and update. I have postfix running, and
> it can send mail to my regular mail accounts. I'm trying to get pop & imap
> services running and am getting nowhere. I have all varieties of pop & imap
> up, and the proper ports are listening on the server. However, I can retrieve
> mail neither from a networked workstation or even locally on the machine
> itself. I'm using regular linux user accounts (no virtual). I've tried
> various password authentication types in case there were some encryption
> running that I wasn't aware of. I've reset my password to be sure I know what
> it is. Nothing seems to help here.

No idea why it's not working for you. I'm running Postfix, normally
delivering to a Maildir. Making it work together with dovecot (a
very easy and secure imap(s) and pop(s) server) was a no-brainer.

Just tell Postfix to deliver in ~/Maildir with
'home_mailbox = Maildir/' in main.cf (make sure ~Maildir exists),
and dovecot to look in the same directory with
'default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir'
Edit /usr/share/doc/packages/dovecot/dovecot-openssl.cnf and run
mkcert.sh (in the same dir) to generate your SSL certificates. Tell
dovecot to listen on your hostaddress with
'imaps_listen = your.host.name' and start dovecot.

That's it, configure a MUA to connect to 'your.host.name' on port
993, accept the cert and away you go.

Theo

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