Re: Need Help Configuring LAN for Email

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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 20:40:44 +0100

In message <a4ii22-jdd.ln1@charon.markhobley.yi.org>, Mark Hobley
<markhobley@hotpop.deletethisbit.com> writes
>
>> I want to be able to read the email held on the server from a remote client
>> machine.
>
>I haven't figured this bit out yet. It's very tempting at this point to use NFS
>to access the mail directories on my server, but I'll avoid this for now.
>
>Does anyone have any comments about this ?
>
>> I want to use the "mutt" mail client on the remote machine.
>
>I'm not sure what I've got to do here.
>
>> Does the remote client need any other packages? Remember I want the mail to
>> remain in a mailbox on the server on my LAN.
>
>I believe that I have to configure exim to provide IMAP on the server. I am
>then guessing that I have to somehow configure MUTT to connect to the IMAP
>server.
>
Here's a chunk of my /etc/exim/exim.conf, from the Transports
Configuration section:

local_delivery:
  driver = appendfile
  group = mail
  mode = 0660
  mode_fail_narrower = false
  envelope_to_add = true
  return_path_add = true
#mbox format file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}
#next 3 lines Maildir format
  directory=${home}/Maildir
  maildir_format = true
  prefix = ""

My exim was originally configured for mbox mail storage, where each user
gets one big file with all the email in. For its fancy folder moving and
individual message deletion, IMAP needs to use maildir format, where
each email is a separate file. *As far as I can remember*, commenting
the old 'file=' line and adding the others were the only things
necessary to make exim work with IMAP. Just installing Courier IMAP did
the rest, I don't think there is any configuration necessary. This was
some time ago, of course.

I don't use mutt over a network, just locally, but have a look at:
  http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/

See also man mutt and man muttrc.

-- 
Joe

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