> > I just don't have a good understanding of email. Can you give me an > > idea of how you'd set this up? At this point I only need mail for > > myself via claws-mail. I currently use postfix, courier-imap, and > > squirrelmail, and my mail is in ~/.maildir/ too. > > Well, I don't see why you changed Courier to virtuals.
I don't think I'm using virtuals. I was only using pieces of that virtuals howto. I'm still trying to figure all this out. > When you connect with Squirrelmail it is simply connecting to the > IMAP server on hostname port 143 or 993. When it does so the IMAP > server says "hello, what's your username, password" and Squirrelmail > gives these. I don't see why you didn't point claws-mail at the same > IMAP server - all you'd have needed to do so, give it the same > username & password and Bob would have married your auntie in a big > ceremony with lots of flowers & confetti. Because claws-mail is here and imap is there and I don't want to send the password unencrypted. I think the only thing I'm trying to do differently now is connect to imapd-ssl instead of imapd. > Squirrelmail might typically connect to the server on localhost using > unencrypted IMAP - on the same machine you should be able to connect > claws-mail the same way. You may wish then to configure the IMAP > server to allow connections from other addresses and to listen on > secure IMAPS / 993, but this is trivial (eg "SSLADDRESS=0" in /etc/ > courier-imap/imapd-ssl). I started imapd-ssl with those settings the other day. That's how I've been trying to connect with no luck. I don't know if it's a certificate problem or something else. Should I copy /etc/courier-imap/imapd.pem from the remote server to somewhere on the local machine for claws-mail? The claws-mail manual is no help here. Should I be using my remote server's IP address for the server names in the claws-mail config? Should IMAP4 authentication method be Automatic? - Grant > You still need to connect to the same machine on secure IMAPS / 993, > but changing (from authentication based on Unix users??) to virtual > users has presumably broken your existing configuration (and ensured > that the server no longer knows where to look for your mail store), > so you need start again (largely) from scratch. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
