Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

From	Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]
Date	2015-12-18 17:10 +0100
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On Friday 18 December 2015 10:19:46 Petter Adsen wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:31:45 -0500
>
> Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > On Friday 18 December 2015 05:32:01 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > Having just by implication been told by someone that only muggles,
> > > lusers and/or dinosaurs use POP3, how many others of us will admit
> > > to it?  (For the avoidance of doubt, I use POP3.)
> > >
> > > I won't admit to being a muggle or a luser (who, me?), but I am
> > > often prepared to admit to being a dinosaur.  However, in this
> > > case I actually don't agree with the premise.  Feel free to tell
> > > me that I am deluding myself and that I am indeed a dinosaur in
> > > this as well.
> > >
> > > I just don't, for my use, like a lot of what IMAP does.
> > >
> > > Lisi
> >
> > You have company Lisi, OTOH I am pretty (81 now) ancient, but I hit
> > two servers with fetchmail, using pop3 to fetch.  I in fact like the
> > idea/premise of IMAP, but have been repeatedly told that setting up
> > the server so I can do email from any of my 5 machines, using this
> > one as the server and one of the clients, is impossible.
>
> It isn't impossible, that's what I do here. I run a local Dovecot IMAP
> server, on the same machine I have cron jobs that run getmail to pull
> down mail from various accounts via POP3 and hand them over to
> Dovecot. Dovecot then passes them through the Sieve plugin, which
> filters them into appropriate folders.
>
> This mail is then accessed from any of my local machines via IMAP, so
> I can use any client on any host and see the exact same folder-tree.
> If this is what you want, then it's quite easy to set up.
>
> >  The all
> > maildir email corpus I have here apparently must be converted back
> > to something resembling a mailfile, and some directories would
> > exceed the reach of a 32 bit filesystem in size as they go back 13
> > years.
>
> I've got Dovecot set up to use Maildir, but I can't comment on the
> directory size thing.
>
> > I was hoping that I could setup icedove to serve the kmail database
> > to other machines, but have been told thats impossible.
>
> Icedove/Thunderbird is a mail client, not an IMAP or POP3 server, so
> it can't do that.
>
> > I might also
> > point out that the docs on icedove/imap are worefully inadequate for
> > a user who has never dealt with it.  I'd still try it, if I could
> > find a tutorial that started out with "install this list of stuff"
> > then configure this "stuff" so, and that "stuff" so, giving an
> > educational background reason for each.
> >
> > I've not found such a tome.  And folks seem to think I'm out of my
> > mind to even try.  That attitude on the part of what is supposed to
> > be a helpful mailing list, is discouraging, for obvious reasons.
>
> If you want to try setting up a Dovecot server, there are lots of good
> tutorials and other docs out there. I can probably dig up links to the
> pages I used for setting up my system if you're interested. The wiki
> at http://wiki.dovecot.org is very helpful.

ISTR I looked there, but it didn't come across as being for a rank 
beginner who has never used an imap client before.  But I'll look again. 
What I would like to see is something I can waste some paper printing it 
out, so I can put highliter pen checkmarks on it as its done.

> NOTE: I'm not saying this is a setup that is guaranteed to work well
> for you, but I'm very happy with it.
>
> Petter

And I was confused, I meant dovecot, not icedove, and whose magic crystal 
ball issues these names anyway? :)  icedove is of course t-bird, without 
the branding.

Thanks Petter.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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command not found Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-12-15 23:10 +0100
  Re: command not found Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2015-12-15 23:40 +0100
    Re: command not found Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-12-16 02:00 +0100
      Re: command not found Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2015-12-16 02:00 +0100
        Re: command not found Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-12-16 02:40 +0100
          Re: command not found Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-16 02:40 +0100
      Re: command not found "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-12-16 08:20 +0100
  Re: command not found Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-12-16 00:10 +0100
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      Re: command not found Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-12-16 00:30 +0100
      Re: command not found Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-12-16 02:00 +0100
        Re: command not found Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-12-16 02:30 +0100
    Re: command not found Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-16 00:30 +0100
  Re: command not found John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-12-16 00:20 +0100
  Re: command not found Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-12-16 01:20 +0100
    Re: command not found Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-12-16 02:10 +0100
      Re: command not found John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-12-16 03:10 +0100
      Re: command not found Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2015-12-16 04:50 +0100
  Re: command not found Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2015-12-16 06:10 +0100
    Re: command not found [SOLVED] Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-12-16 19:10 +0100
      Re: command not found [SOLVED] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-12-16 20:20 +0100
        Re: command not found [SOLVED] Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-12-17 21:10 +0100
          Re: command not found [SOLVED] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-12-18 11:30 +0100
            POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-18 11:40 +0100
              Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> - 2015-12-18 12:00 +0100
                Re: POP3 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-18 12:20 +0100
                Re: POP3 "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-12-18 12:50 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2015-12-18 13:40 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-12-18 15:40 +0100
              Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-12-18 12:30 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-18 12:40 +0100
              Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-12-18 15:40 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2015-12-18 16:00 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-12-18 17:10 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2015-12-18 22:40 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-12-18 23:00 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> - 2015-12-18 16:30 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-12-18 17:10 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-18 17:20 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> - 2015-12-18 18:30 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-12-18 19:20 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2015-12-18 20:10 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-12-18 23:10 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-12-18 17:20 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2015-12-18 20:50 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2015-12-19 17:10 +0100
                Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2015-12-20 01:20 +0100
                OT Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-12-20 21:00 +0100
                Re: OT Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED] Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2015-12-20 21:50 +0100
              Re: POP3 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-12-18 16:30 +0100
                Re: POP3 Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-18 16:40 +0100
                Re: POP3 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-12-19 01:30 +0100
                Re: POP3 Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-19 01:50 +0100
                Re: POP3 Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-12-21 14:50 +0100
                Re: POP3 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-01-04 16:50 +0100
            Re: command not found [SOLVED] Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-12-18 18:10 +0100
              Re: command not found [SOLVED] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-12-19 20:50 +0100
      Re: command not found [SOLVED] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-12-16 20:30 +0100

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