Re: Thunderbird and Postfix

From: uidzero (uidzero_at_one-arm.com)
Date: 06/30/04

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    Jonas Mazakolo wrote:

    >Hello,
    >
    >I find thunderbird to be my favorite email program, but unfortunately I
    >have already set up good spam filters through
    >postfix/procmail/fetchmail and I wish to keep that. I read that some
    >have set up IMAP servers so thunderbird can access it. Is that
    >possible? How can I set up a very simple IMAP (which ones? dovecot?
    >cyrus? courier?) server? Could someone help or point me to documents
    >that tells me how to set it up (a standalone IMAP server with no
    >connection to outside internet, just on my box?
    >
    >Thank you,
    >
    >Jonas
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    I installed Postfix with courier-imap

    /usr/ports/mail/courier-imap/

    Works great.

    Michael 

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