Fetchmail and Procmail there, How to get IMAP

Forum: Networking
Topic: Fetchmail and Procmail there, How to get IMAP
started by: arew264

Posted by arew264 on April 23 2005,03:31

I really need to get help here from someone who's done it before. I have fetchmail and procmail installed but I can't get any of the three imap servers I've tried to work. I would really like someone who's done this before to help me out. Here is what I need to do:

Email accounts:
"username" "password" mail.bluebottle.com
"username" "password" mail.bluebottle.com
"username" "password" mail.bluebottle.com

I don't want to show the usernames and definetly not the passwords, but I have three accounts with bluebottle.

SMTP server:
smtp-server.houston.rr.com

I can send mail on this server without having to log in because I have Road Runner for internet.

I am planning to use MSMTP, but whenever I type in MSMTP in xterm, I get an error about it can't find libgnutls.so.11 even though it installed with no openssl or gnutls support.

I want to use fetchmail and procmail to get mail from the bluebottle accounts and drop it all in my inbox. From there I would like to use MSMTP to send mail through Road RUnner, but I could also move that off the server and just set the mail server to my linux box (IP address) and the smtp server to smtp-server.houston.rr.com, but I would prefer to do smtp from the server. Anyone out there who could help me get this off the ground, seeing as I have no idea what to do? Anything about this woud help because I know nothing. I will continue to do searches and hope. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Posted by arew264 on April 24 2005,17:30

UPDATE:

I finally got an imap server (binc imap) to install. Now there's the problem of getting it to work. I don't understand how you even start it and I can't find any guides for dummies on it. YOu can read about it < here > and < here >. Any help on this subject would be appreciated.

Posted by arew264 on April 24 2005,17:36

ANother update...
on the life with binc imap site (the second link) I can't even telnet port 143 and get a connection. I don't understand it when they talk about daemontools or xinetd, however I have found a command in DSL that is inetd, but I have no idea of the relationship between the two. Again, I would really be thankful for any help.