local imap server using fetchmail

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 22:59 -0400, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
> 
> Bryan Liles wrote:
> > Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
> > 
> >> I have installed fetchmail and cyrus imap rpms on my machine in the 
> >> hopes to be able to configure them so that I can run a local imap 
> >> server that downloads my remote e mail and then serves it via IMAP on 
> >> my local machine.
> >>
> >> But I can't seem to be able to figure out how to configure them so 
> >> they work together.  I have been trying to do this for months and have 
> >> not had any success.  Can anyone point me to a site or howto that 
> >> shows me how to do this step my step?  Most of the sites I have seen 
> >> show me how to do this from a compiled version of both but I was not 
> >> able to compile and install them properly which is why I moved to rpms.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I find dovecot much easier to work with as opposed to cyrus.  Maybe you 
> > can give that a try.
> > 
> Unfortunately I started with cyrus before I got to read this email and now I think Im to far into it 
> to turn from it now.  So I am trying to do this systematically.  Right now it seems I can telnet to 
> the the IMAP server but I can't seem to connect to it with my client.  When I connect to it via 
> telnet I get the following response:
> 
> [lmcilwain at localhost ~]$ telnet localhost 143
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK localhost.localdomain Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.12-Invoca-RPM-2.2.12-6.fc4 server ready
> 
> But when I try to connect to localhost via my mail client it tells me that its a failed connection 
> after specifying my password.
> 
> Whats so weird is that I didn't specify a password to telnet to it via the command prompt.  Any 
> ideas of what I maybe doing wrong?
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Craig