On (20/01/06 13:57), Ropetin wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > >We had the same requirement, pulling in via pop3 and accessing via IMAP. > >We used dovecot. I made some notes on the setup here: > >http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk/selfhelp/MailServer.html > > I appreciate this and all the other great responses to my request. You > are all most helpful. I followed these steps and got all the software > installed and I think configured per your instructions, correcting a > couple of probable transcription mistakes.
Please let me know what these are so I can correct them :) > I ran fetchmail interactively and it grabbed 387 messages from the test > account I'm using. I then configured my email client to access the IMAP > account from Dovecot which pulled down 600 or so messages that the user > account already had, but not the 387 test messages. My immediate thought is: How did the 600 messages get into the user's directory and is there possibly another mail directory where the test messages are going? I seem to recall some minor wrinkles over directories and I found using mutt locally on the server helped set up the directories where I wanted them; sounds as though this needs to be incorporated in the notes. > > I set fetchmail to run as a daemon every 2 minutes and sent a test > message to the account. Almost immediately I started to get a string of > error messages from the main SMTP server in both boxes; > > "This message is looping: it already has my Delivered-To line. (#5.4.6)" > > It seems that basically the message was ping-ponging backwards and > forwards between the two boxes, with neither taking responsibility for it. > > I know I must be missing something obvious, its just this email thing is > too confusing sometimes! Does anyone have any immediate suggestion as > to what the issue might be before I give up and try another route? Other than the above I'm not sure what the problem is; one of the reasons for the notes is so I could replicate the setup more easily. It is confusing; hopefully someone else can help. The Matt Doran page may shed some light: http://blogs.papercutsoftware.com/matt.doran/page/2/ Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
