Comments on: Your Own Personal Mail Server

By: Oliver Charles

Oliver Charles — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:09:19 +0000

This is great! Just what I was looking for.

Could you change type to MDA_external, and process with procmail to do some filtering? Or should this be done on my actual computers where I read the mail?

By: Fun With Linux : » Setting Up An IMAP Mail Server and Using Thunderbird

Fun With Linux : » Setting Up An IMAP Mail Server and Using Thunderbird — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:58:17 +0000

[...] I thought that Getmail would be the best bet to collect the mail from the various hosts. I found this post which explained how to set up Getamil and [...]

By: Odrakir

Odrakir — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:58:53 +0000

I think you might skiped this part:

cd
cd .getmail
touch gmailrc
sudo nano gmailrc

By: manteros

manteros — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:04:19 +0000

erkk i have an error on the last part

asialink@asialink-desktop:/usr/bin$ sudo /usr/bin/getmail –rcfile=gmailrc
Error: configuration file /home/asialink/.getmail/gmailrc does not exist

dunno where i did wrong…

By: Odrakir

Odrakir — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:59:03 +0000

I guess so… I never tried that but it’s supposed to work…

By: Nuno

Nuno — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:02:45 +0000

And… if one of these days I need to change computer, I can just backup the ~/maildir follow this HOWTO again and move on, right?

By: Odrakir

Odrakir — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:00:54 +0000

If you want to go the extra mile you can add postfix and squirrelmail and have webmail access to your imap folders.

By: Pedro Ângelo

Pedro Ângelo — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:51:27 +0000

Great HOWTO. I’d been planning for a while to build a cyrus fetchmail procmail test setup to wrangle my email being spread across multiple accounts on multiple machines.

This approach seems a lot simpler. Thanks.

By: John Davies

John Davies — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:07:20 +0000

Nice! I was spending my time with Cyrus, but this is way simpler! Thanks!!!!