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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  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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