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Subject: Re: Dovecot for testing - can someone please give
advice?./. Was: Citadel? Courier? Cyrus? Dovecot? - I just want to backup my
emails
Markus Robert Kessler <
no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de> wrote:
> I try to set up a simple Dovecot instance on a raspberry where I can
> create one mailbox and use this for testing purposes with GNU Mailutils
> and ImapSync.
FWIW GNU Mailutils comes with an IMAP server too, which I use for
about the same purpose as what you seem to be doing. It seemed like
a good idea but in practice I rarely use it and read the mailbox
movemail writes to directly with an email client instead.
Something like this in /etc/mailutils.conf configures it:
"
program imap4d
{
logging
{
syslog yes;
facility mail;
severity debug;
};
#debug {
# level auth;
#};
auth
{
authentication generic;
authorization system;
};
login-disabled false;
homedir
{
create false;
}
mailbox
{
mailbox-type "mh";
folder "Mail/";
};
namespace personal
{
mailbox-mode g=;
prefix ""
{
directory "$home/Mail";
mailbox-type "mh";
};
};
};
"
You need a "mail" group and add users who can log via IMAP to that
group.
I`ve configured Dovecot before too but I find it difficult, so
you`d better get advice on that from one of the people who says
it`s easy.
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