setting up very limited email server with pop3 access

[Matt Price]

Hi folks,

I'm having difficulties with the broken IMAP server my isp uses.
However, I happen to have access to an Ubuntu web server which is
always on.  I would like to use this machine as a kind of proxy:  use
getmail or something similar to download my mail from the ISP, then
make those mails accessible by pop3 or pop3-ssl (IMAP would work too,
I guess, as long as it doesn't get confused when multiple programs
access it), then download mails from this "local" server using getmail
or some other tool.  

I've installed courier on the target system, but I don't find
straightforward instructions on how to do something this simple
(courier seems to be designed for far more complex purposes).  Can
anyone suggest an approach?  In particular I don't understand how to
make an mbox or maildir accessible to a pop3 client -- if you can help
me with that I ought to be able to figure out the getmail parts on my
own (though of course I wouldn't object to help on those matters
either).  

Thanks much,

Matt

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Matt Price	    matt.price at utoronto.ca
History Department, University of Toronto
(416) 978-2094
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