On 01/12/2015 06:09 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
In any case, this has been an interesting discussion. Please do a writeup when you're done and share it with us if you can please. I'd love to know your reasoning for various decisions, just so we can all er fnitpick them for you. *grin* Cheers, John
Ok, I managed to get it all working. I think.
Once I got dovecot installed, I ran into some issues with dsync, but I dd get it to move my inbox over. Mostly. I had been using procmail, so my mail continued to be delivered to /var/spool/mail/matt. Oops. So I ripped everything out, fixed the issue of procmail running and reinstalled. Again, dsync had issues, but it did deal with my inbox. I tried the md2mb.pl script from the dovecot site and it moved the other folders over. Sort of. I had a few issues getting Thunderbird to see them, but finally succeeded.
So, once I managed to get postfix and dovecot dealing with my Maildir inbox correctly, I moved on to the MUA step. Alpine did very strange things, so I dropped it immediately. Thunderbird would run on the server (with X forwarding) and see my mail. However, Thunderbird would not connect remotely. After pounding my head against that wall for a while, I called a friend and went over to his place to debug it. He put me on the right track. Next, I needed outgoing mail working. My friend had set up a server with almost the exact same configuration, so we compared config files. Then we compared more config files. Finally, we found the correct config files to compare and managed to get outgoing mail working as well. I'm sure it didn't hurt that I paid for all the food for him and his wife at the Alamo Drafthouse the day before...
Next there was lots of excitement dealing with Thunderbird. It saturated one CPU on my netbook for a couple of days doing something, my guess is indexing. Typical response time to a mouse click was about 45 seconds. It was very depressing. Fortunately after it went through all of that, the CPU utilization is much lower and Thunderbird is much more responsive. I'm still in the process of reorganizing the folders into a more hierarchical system that works more effectively on a netbook screen. Thunderbird fails in a number of irritating ways, mostly by streaming popup errors on my screen.
It's not practical to run both Firefox and Thunderbird at the same time on my netbook if I'm doing anything the least bit demanding (like trying to watch Hulu).
So, it works. The advice I got here was quite helpful. Thank you. -- Matt I suppose I need a signature file for Thunderbird.... _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
