Re: KMail Error with IMAP Inbox folder?
From: Amnon Feiner (none_at_none.com)
Date: 10/31/05
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:40:54 GMT
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:30:45 +0100, David Wright wrote:
> Amnon Feiner wrote:
>
>> David Wright wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the clarification, your original post sounded like you weren't
>>> clear on the concepts of IMAP ;-)
>> The problem was isolated to the Windows Bases workgroup Mail server.
>> Will talk to their support today. I could not install my own Linux IMAP
>> server, since I simply did not get it (how it works).
>
> Posted a mini-HowTo for Cyrus last week, but here it is again...
>
> The easiest way to configure is through YaST, took me about 5 minutes to set
> it up to pull in e-mail from 5 separate ISP accounts and dump them in my
> Cyrus IMAP server.
>
> Cyrus took about 10 minutes to set-up and configure, use the
> System->Runlevel-Editor in Yast to make sure it is turned on.
>
> Use the Network Services->Mail Transfer Agent to configure fetchmail.
>
> ...
>
> Step 1. If you don't have the packages locally, set-up a software source
> under Software->Installation Source(? I use German language).
>
> Type: FTP
> Server: An FTP mirror such as ftp.gwdg.de
> Path: depends on mirror, but for the above it is
> "pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.3" for SuSE 9.3
>
> Step 2 in the Software section, select "Install or remove
> Software" (Software management?) and search for and check the following
> packages for install:
>
> amavisd-new, cyrus-imapd and fetchmail - fetchmail should be installed on
> your machine by now I guess.
>
> Yast should automatically take care of any dependencies.
>
> Step 3. Go to Network Services->Mail Transfer Agent
>
> select your connection type, if you have DSL, then it will be a Permanent
> connection, check the box at the bottom of the form to do virus checking
> with amavis if you want to check incoming e-mails.
>
> Click Next, here you must specify the outgoing SMTP mail server, give the
> server name in the box and click on Authentication and give the relevant
> user id and password here.
>
> Click Next, now we are setting up the receiving of the e-mail.
> Check the remote SMTP connections, this will allow Cyrus to talk to
> fetchmail. If you have the firewall running, check the open firewall port
> option.
>
> Next give the information for the main e-mail account to be received and at
> the bottom of that section, specify the local user to whom the mail should
> be sent.
>
> If you have more than one e-mail account, click on Details and add the rest.
> I currently have 5 separate accounts to download and it works fine. Once
> you have added all the accounts, click OK to return to the wizard.
>
> You can also choose to send "root" (i.e. symstem messages generated as
> e-mail) to another user, I have this set to my main user as well.
>
> The select the delivery mode or whatever it is called at the bottom and
> select "on Cyrus IMAP-Server"
>
> Click Finish. Fetchmail has now been set-up.
>
> Step 4. YaST->System->Runlevel Editor.
>
> Here you get a list services which can be turned on or off. You need to turn
> on amavis and cyrus to allow virus checking and IMAP e-mail (assuming you
> are using the Cyrus IMAP server as described in this post ;-) ).
>
> Also make sure sasld is running, Cyrus uses it to authenticate users.
>
> Click Finish once it is set-up.
>
> Step 5. Start up a root session in a terminal windows.
>
> Step 6. change the password of the "cyrus" account using "passwd cyrus" by
> default it doesn't have a password, so should be changed!
>
> Step 7. Check /etc/imapd.conf and make sure the option "sasl_mech_list:" is
> set to PLAIN to allow normal authentication - if you want to use encrypted
> authentication, I would still use PLAIN first, to get everything up and
> working; once it works, then you can play around with setting up
> encryption. There is no point in trying to work out why the mail isn't
> coming through, when it is the encrypted authentication which is causing
> the problem ;-)
>
> Step 8. Restart the server. Either stop-and-start it in the runlevel editor,
> or from the terminal window we are working with, issue a
> restart: /etc/init.d/cyrus restart
>
> Step 9. Now we need to configure Cyrus there is a web tool to do this, but
> from the command line:
>
> cyradm -u cyrus localhost (if you are configuring from another machine,
> replace localhost with the server name/IP address)
>
> Use the cm (createmailbox) command to create a user.
>
> cm user.<username>
>
> This creates a user with the username which should be the same local name
> that you forwarded the email to in the fetchmail configuration above! Rinse
> and repeat for all users that you want to create. This creates a basic user
> account with an "Inbox".
>
> Use lam user.<username> to list the rights of the mailbox. The rights are
> (l)ookup, (r)ead and (p)ost among others, see list below.
>
> The sam command can be used to set the appropriate rights for the mail box.
>
> You could, for example, create a public mailing list folder with
>
> cm pub.MailingLists
> sam pub.MailingLists anyone lrs
>
> This would create a public access folder with lookup, read and seen
> privileges.
>
> That's pretty much it... You can now configure your mail client to talk to
> the cyrus mail server via IMAP.
>
> If you want server side filtering you can use the Sieve addon, which should
> be in the main package. This allows moving e-mails to different folders or
> auto-forwarding I think, I haven't played with it.
>
> Mailbox rights list:
> lookup Can get a listing of mails in the folder.
> read Can read mails in the folder.
> seen Can mark messages as read
> write Can write (store) new messages in this folder
> insert Can copy/move mails to this folder
> post Users can send directly to the folder (e.g.
> <username>+folder@example.com)
> Create Can create sub-folders off of this folder.
> Delete Can delete mails from this folder (and the folder itself)
> Administer Can change the rights on the folder.
>
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Dave
Dave
Thanks, I will try again tonight. It does take 5 to 10 minutes WHEN YOU
KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING :-)
I will give it a shot again, I do not give up that easily.
TIA
-- Amnon Feiner http://www.woodcontour.com Solid Wood and Stone PC Peripherals.
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