setting up very limited email server with pop3 access

[Derek Broughton]

Clive Menzies wrote:

> On (08/02/06 14:24), Matt Price wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> I put some notes up on setting up an imap server using dovecot; I would
> guess setting it up for pop3 would be much different:
> 
> http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk/selfhelp/MailServer.html

I guess you meant "would NOT be much different", since it wouldn't :-)
-- 
derek