Re: Thunderbird and Postfix

From: Gary (gv-list-freebsdquestions_at_mygirlfriday.info)
Date: 06/30/04

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    Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:15:44 -0500
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    Hi Jonas,

    --On Tuesday, June 29, 2004 08:52:47 PM -0700 Jonas Mazakolo
    <mazakolo@gmx.net> wrote:

    > 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?

    Of course.

    > 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?

    Consider the type of mail format you wish. Courier uses Maildir
    format, Dovecot uses both mbox or Maildir format, etc...

    I am partial to a newer Maildir format type IMAPs server, binc at

    http://www.bincimap.org

    It is 1000s of lines of code lighter than the others, very fast, and
    works very well. I have it on 5 production boxes currently ... without
    problems. It is very easy to set up, and runs well on FreeBSD. 

    -- 
Gary
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