apt-cache & SOLVED: Re: setting up very limited email server with pop3 access

[Matt Price]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 06:28:12PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (09/02/06 10:22), Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Clive Menzies wrote:
> > > 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 :-)
> 
> Yes. D'oh :)
> 
> Thanks for the correction.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Clive
> 

thanks clive, that was a big help.  Ended up justi nstalling dovecot
-- a breeze to get started -- and am using getmail to metch & process
on theo ther computers.  so far it seems ok.  I may try various
refinements down the road -- thanks for your help!
 
matt

ps -- this is an afterthought -- onereaosn I was having so much
trouble was that apt-cache seems broken on the server (running ubuntu
breezy).  So e.g. "apt-cache search pop" gives no results.  
apt-get install dovecot-pop3d 
works fine though.    Is there something I can do to regenerate the
cache?

thanks,

matt


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