setting up very limited email server with pop3 access

Clive Menzies clive at clivemenzies.co.uk
Wed Feb 8 21:43:23 UTC 2006


On (08/02/06 14:24), Matt Price wrote:
> I'm having difficulties with the broken IMAP server my isp uses.
> However, I happen to have access to an Ubuntu web server which is
> always on.  I would like to use this machine as a kind of proxy:  use
> getmail or something similar to download my mail from the ISP, then
> make those mails accessible by pop3 or pop3-ssl (IMAP would work too,
> I guess, as long as it doesn't get confused when multiple programs
> access it), then download mails from this "local" server using getmail
> or some other tool.  
> 
> I've installed courier on the target system, but I don't find
> straightforward instructions on how to do something this simple
> (courier seems to be designed for far more complex purposes).  Can
> anyone suggest an approach?  In particular I don't understand how to
> make an mbox or maildir accessible to a pop3 client -- if you can help
> me with that I ought to be able to figure out the getmail parts on my
> own (though of course I wouldn't object to help on those matters
> either).  

I put some notes up on setting up an imap server using dovecot; I would
guess setting it up for pop3 would be much different:

http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk/selfhelp/MailServer.html

Regards

Clive

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