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by Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade — last modified 2005-04-29 00:22

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March General Meeting

Date: March 10, 2005
Place:

San Diego County Office of Education
6401 Linda Vista Road
San Diego, CA 92111-7399

Room: 306
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Presenter: Cameron Gary
Topic: All-in-one Email client to client-server conversion

Cameron will talk about conversion from client-based email, where one program is responsible for retrieving, sending, storing, and filtering email as well as addresses to a server based email system.

This allows you to switch between machines and programs more easily. For example, using Kmail when you're at home and mutt when accessing the email remotely. This also insulates client from configuration changes. You could switch ISPs without reconfiguring client software. An additional benefit is that your desktop PC does need to be up and running. Turn it off when you leave for work or go on vacation and you can still access your email.

The software involved includes fetchmail for mail retrieval, procmail for filtering, Courier IMAP for mail storage and access, and OpenLDAP for an address book. Postfix is used for mail delivery.

Mail Process - Who does what ?

1. Fetchmail retrieves mail from POP3 and IMAP servers
2. Procmail filters mail based on criteria such as From, Subject, To, Spam flag into folders
3. IMAP server makes the mail available
4. Client program displays mail. When the users deletes and email, the server marks it for deletion - the client does not directly delete it.
5. Client then replies, or sends new mail, The server relays it to the ISPs mail server.

Conversion process.

1. Install IMAP server
2. Transfer existing mail to IMAP server

Best done within the client, not from a command line

3. Test fetchmail without deleting mail

fetchmail -kv

4. Build procmail recipes

dump kmailrc and grep for conditions in filters

5. Get fetchmail running as a daemon
6. Dump address book from Kaddressbook
7. Clean up resulting LDIF file
8. Use ldapadd command to import into LDAP

March Installfest

Date: March 12, 2005
Place: that Technical Bookstore

8909 Complex Drive
San Diego CA 92123
(858) 614-4323
Map

There is an Installfest at that Technical Bookstore March 12.

We're woking on a venue for the KPLUG March Installfest.

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