Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:04:06 +0100 From: Maciej Milewski <milu@dat.pl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems [SOLVED] Message-ID: <201101171104.07180.milu@dat.pl> In-Reply-To: <4D321573.80903@lazlarlyricon.com> References: <4D2857EE.1090808@lazlarlyricon.com> <4D321573.80903@lazlarlyricon.com>
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On Saturday 15 of January 2011 22:45:23, Rolf Nielsen wrote: > Thanks for the input I received from you guys. I've got things running > in a way I'm quite happy with now. And with your input and a little > further digging on my part, it turned out to be pretty simple. > > I kept sendmail, set up dovecot as an IMAP server, and put > "| /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver" in ~/.forward. That's all I did. > And it works just like I want it to. Realising it was that simple made > me laugh at myself. But then again, mail servers isn't my area of > expertise. > > I find using ~/.forward for this a bit of an ugly hack, but as long as > I'm the only one using this computer, I can live with it, though I would > prefer to have it in /etc/mail/aliases instead, but that just gives me > warnings about deliver not being run as the correct user (yes, I did try > with the -d option). If someone knows how to fix that, I'd be greatful, > but it's not that important, at least not for the time being, so don't > lose any sleep over it for me. > > Anyway, thanks again for the input, > > Rolf Nielsen As you left sendmail and not mention about reconfiguring it I think that you should do it according to Dovecot wiki: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail Maciej
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