Bob Goodwin-3 wrote: > > > Ok, I've installed Dovecot, made some changes to the config. file > and started it. Then told gmail I wanted to "enable" IMAP. Although > I have a "wildblue" address they gave up their mail servers and > shunted everyone over to google! Not the best deal for users perhaps > but I had no choice. Rural users are stuck without CATV or Telco DSL > internet service so the satellite providers have no competition. > > Anyway now that I've done this the system is dumping everything it > has on me, presently 4091 trash files! Hopefully that is all, > probably ~7k messages in total. > > I still don't understand how this works but I will in pretty short > order I guess? Where are these messages being saved? On my F-12 > computer somewhere in Dovecot I hope. > > What do I have to configure in another computer to access the IMAP > messages? Do I simply add an IMAP user to Thunderbird, the email > program I have been using for some time. If the messages are stored > in my computer, other computers need to look there and connect via > my LAN [wired and wireless]. I'm already in over my head despite > reading a lot of instructions on how to set this up!. > > Any help is appreciated. > > When you told gmail that you want to access it via imap then you presumably set up an imap gmail account in Thunderbird? What this then will do is to get the mail client (Thunderbird) to access gmail via the imap server held at gmail. This is not directly related to the dovecot imap server that you will have set up on your own machine. You can get Thunderbird to (separately) connect to you own imap server if you set up a "local" imap account pointing to 127.0.0.1 and have the dovecot service running locally (i.e. make sure that as root "dovecot service start", and "chkconfig dovecot on" to start it at boot - and check that the service is running by "service dovecot status") Now when you start Thunderbird with both the gmail imap account as well as the local imap account defined within Thunderbird then you will see two sets of mail but at this stage the only mail that you will see populated is the gmail account. i.e. Thunderbird as email client, is making connections to two independent imap servers - one at gmail and the other in your local machine. If you wish you can then copy mail from the gmail server to your own dovecot server, either manually or by setting up local filter rules within Thunderbird. You can set rules up to make copies of all mail at gmail onto your local imap server from within Thunderbird so that each time Thunderbird checks for new mail at gmail it will copy to your local server. You configure the rules in which ever way is most convenient for you. However once this is all done then you can start a different mail client (such as Evolution for example) and set up a local imap account which will then see any email that is already stored (and handled) by dovecot locally. You can of course also set it up to look at gmail and transfer files to the local imap if you wish - and then run either mail client whenever you feel like it, and use the best facilities of the one you are running at any time. So re-capping: 1) Set up local imap server - dovecot. 2) Set up email client eg Thunderbird and/or Evolution and/or kmail etc with each email client having an account pointing to any mail servers where you have email - one account may be gmail, another your local dovecot imap, and you may have a yahoo account or others as well 3) Set up filter rules to copy mail from one or other of these servers to any of the others - each "account" set up in an email client points to a different server. One possible use is when your isp runs only a pop3 mail server - you can get your Thunderbird to connect to that but then to copy mail from that server to your local server and then any other mail client can see the same emails by pointing them to the local dovecot imap server. I hope this helps -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Saving-Tbird-e-mail-files----tp26835345p26859000.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
