Hey, this is cool. I got IMAP working and I added an entry into etc/aliases
to forward all mail to my account. Then I connected to the server using
Outlook on my Win2K machine. Just a quick note for those who care, you can't
connect to it as root. It just won't let you. Now just for fun, how do I
configure my e-mail client to send messages to the server?
-----Original Message-----
From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of Jeff
Barriault
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:48 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: RE: [SLUG] mail server.
Jeff-
Samba is totally irrelevent to IMAP. IMAP is a network protocol that
runs on top of TCP/IP. This protocol defines the operations to:
authenticate a user, get a list of mailboxes, get a list of headers,
fetch a message, move a message, delete a message, etc. As a network
protocol, it does not rely upon the mail clients being able to access
any FILES on the mail server. This greatly simplifies things, and
should cause fewer security risks.
I have never tried to access the mailbox for the root user through
IMAP, but I think it should work the same way it works for everyone else
(but you do know that you should not be doing day-to-day tasks (such as
email) as root, right? You could make an email alias so that all of
root's email gets sent to your normal user mailbox.)
My mail server has the following line in the /etc/inetd.conf file to
enable IMAP:
imap2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd imapd
of course, this requires that the imapd executable exists and is
configured. It should be very straightforward. You should verify that
you have imapd installed, and then try the above line (if the line did
not already exist, you will have to do a "killall -HUP inetd" to force
inetd to re-read its configuration file). Then you can configure your
mail client to use IMAP to access your mailbox. I have never seen
Outlook, but I assume that it supports IMAP. If this doesn't work, you
can post specific problems to the list, or email directly to me.
--ronan
Thanks Ronan. So how do I find out if inetd is even loaded on my system, and
if not, where do I get it?
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