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On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:59:20 +0100 Rob Beard wrote: > Now before I start another Debian install, I was wondering if anyone on > the mailing list could suggest which packages to use? > > What I would like to achieve is: > > - Download mail from various pop3/imap mail accounts for each user on > the server I have taken to using "getmail" rather than "fetchmail" - primarily because I couldn't find anything to detail how to get fetchmail to save to a maildir rather than an mbox file. > - Send mail to my ISP (blueyonder) using standard SMTP, Exim all the way! > - Allow users on the network to login to the server ideally using IMAP4 > with Thunderbird or *cough* Outlook *cough*. Dovecot has been suggested on the list before. I must admit to being tempted by courier simply because it has a "web admin tool" available in the Debian repositories, but after fart-arsing about trying to get the webadmin thing running smoothly, I gave Dovecot a try and haven't looked back! > - Allow access to the mail using webmail (something along the lines of > Horde webmail). I'm using Ilohamail. The default configuration allows anyone to access any POP/IMAP account (providing they know the server details, username and password), but you can cut the login page down to allow only username and password quite easily. Also it's in the Debian repository. > - Virus/spam checking mail (used ClamAV on the SME server box for virus > checking before) For incoming mail, getmail can pass through to a mailscanner (or pretty much anything really). For outgoing... not sure. > I'm assuming as a minimum I will need a basic install of Debian 3.1 > along with the webserver components and maybe SQL server? On mine I have Sarge (3.1) with main, contrib, non-free and non-US branches. Everything listed above is present in these repositories. No webserver elements being used and no SQL. > Any help on this would be great, would save my last bit of hair I > haven't torn out yet ;-) > > Rob I am only having one problem with my setup: I have not figured out how to setup getmail to only download an unread message once! My setup is as follows: multiple pop3 accounts from which getmail retrieves emails (but leaves them on the ISP's server... for the time being). When I first got it up and running I have 9 unread messages on one of my ISP pop accounts. Every 5 minutes getmail would download them, and in the end I had 513 messages on my mail server! It had downloaded the same 9 messages 57 times! Unfortunately I haven't managed to fix this, mainly because it is of a lower importance to me than sending emails which works fine! Grant. -- Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html