CentOS 6, cyrus-imapd 2.3.16-15.el6, postfix 2.6.6-8.el6, procmail 3.22-25.1.el6_5.1, squirrelmail 1.4.22-5.el6

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 21 Jun 2018 22:35:45 +0200 Albert Shih <Albert.Shih at obspm.fr> wrote:

> 
> Le 21/06/2018 à 13:28:38-0400, Robert Heller a écrit
> 
> Sorry when I answer you I forget to put the mailing list on CC, Maybe they
> are other answers...
> 
> So I add info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu on cc for this answer. Hope you
> don't mind.

At this point I have given up on cyrus-imapd. It just can't do what I want to
do. I replaced it with dovecot, which I probably should have installed in the
first place, if I had known what dovecot was.

> 
> > At Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:23:56 +0200 Albert Shih <Albert.Shih at obspm.fr> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Le 21/06/2018 à 09:58:15-0400, Robert Heller a écrit
> > > > I am having trouble getting this all to work properly together.
> > > >
> > > > I have a CentOS 6 server, that is mostly a webserver and one main E-Mail
> > > > account (mine), plus a couple of E-Mail accounts that use procmail to do spam
> > > > filtering and then forward thing along.  I also run Mailman for some mailling
> > > > lists.  Everything is working, except cyrus-imapd.  I have postfix set up to
> > > > use procmail to deliver mail to me, through the filter and forward accounts
> > > > and to Mailman.  I would like to add a *few* webbased e-mail accounts using
> > > > Squirrelmail and (local for now) imapd.  But I cannot figure out how to either
> > > > get cyrus-imapd to either access the local mail spool (/var/spool/mail) or to
> > > > get procmail to deliver to imap spool (/var/spool/imap).  The postfix config
> > >
> > > I'm pretty sure you cannot do that.
> > >
> > > > says that you can only use mailbox_command or mailbox_transport, but not both.
> > > > I want to use procmail + /var/spool/mail for some E-Mail accounts and (I
> > > > guess) deliver + /var/spool/imap for others.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure that's a good idea to use postfix + procmail + cyrus.
> 
> I thinking of what you asking, well, maybe you can do that (event I find
> that a little strange inside the procmailrc:
> 
> SHELL="/bin/bash"
> SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t"
> LOGFILE="/var/log/procmail.log"
> DEFAULT="$HOME/Maildir/"
> MAILDIR="$HOME/Maildir/"
> DELIVER="/usr/local/cyrus/deliver -d $LOGNAME"
> 
> # If it's for me
> :0
> * To: poweruser@\.*
> $DEFAULT
> 
> # deliver to other user
> :0 w
> | $DELIVER
> 
> I didn't test it (I don't use procmail anymore)
> 
> > >
> > > I think that would be much better to use
> > >
> > >   postfix + sieve + cyrus.
> > >
> > > I don't say sieve is better than procmail, just say it's integrated.
> >
> > If I use sieve instead of procmail, what happens with my existing UNIX Mail
> > accounts?  Does this mean I *have* to use imap to access ALL E-Mail on my
> > server?  I don't want to do that.  I use QWK to access my personal mail,
> > currently delivered to /var/mail/spool via procmail and use procmail recipies
> > to pre-process it.  I need to do this in part because I have dial-up internet
> > and cannot relaistly use a (so called) "modern" E-Mail client like
> > Thunderbird, since I don't really have enough bandwidth for that.  Part of my
> > procmail recipies involve stripping off attachments (so I don't have to
> > download large attachment over a dialup connection) and to strip off HTML
> 
> Well as I know you cannot do that with sieve.
> 
> > (since I don't use [and refuse to use] a HTML capable E-Mail client).
> 
> Well, I'm also in the exact situation than you, but I use mutt as main
> E-Mail client. It's working very well thought imap (whatever the server
> is), and you can also use offlineimap to synchronise a local copy of your
> email. So you can use mutt online by connecting to your imap server and you
> can also use offlineimap to get a local copy so you can access your email
> when you're offline.
> 
> And yes mutt work well on very low bandwidth connection.
> 
> Regards.
> --
> Albert SHIH
> DIO bâtiment 15
> Observatoire de Paris
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