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Distribution: Debian and Fedora Core in equal measure
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Mail arrives at CLI but not in Evolution
I've built a Fedora Core 6 platform, firewall control by Shorewall, with Exim, Dovecote, ClamAV, and (on the server itself) I'm running Evolution mail (just for testing purposes, I haven't got to the stage of using a remote mail client yet). I have the most up-to-date versions of all S/W, listings available if it looks like a relevant issue. I'm using IMAP/Sendmail configuration in Evolution, I'm not sure about the Sendmail bit...Evolution is on the same platform, so SMTP is probably wrong, and I understand that exim is "plug-compatible" with sendmail, but I'm not sure this config is right, but I get no errors with the "sendmail" config. All software is contained in the same platform.
If I fire up Evolution and compose an email on the server, then send it to another of my systems, it works fine, the mail arrives and is complete and readable. If I then set up a "reply", the sending system's Exim logs show it goes out fine, and its received by the new system. However, Evolution never gets it. Instead, I get a message in the CLI about mail. It comes to the right user, and is readable, but I cannot get it to go to Evolution. I can read it using the CLI command "mail".
I *think* I have the setup correct for Maildir, which I chose to use in place of Mbox, but I'm open to suggestions if that could be the problem. I have inspected the exim and dovecote config files, and to my relatively inexperienced eye, they look right but I have a nagging worry that I could have got the system confused between Mbox and Maildir. I've not posted any configs, 'cos I'm not certain what is useful, and there's *way* too much to post the whole thing.
Evolution is a client that relies on POP/IMAP type connection to recieve emails unlike the CLI like mutt or simply mail. This might be the reason you are not getting the mails, you need to have POP/IMAP setup and listening and use Evolution to retrieve the emails by those means.
Distribution: Debian and Fedora Core in equal measure
Posts: 264
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Thanks TrickyKid!
I eventually bit the bullet: deinstalled, reinstalled, reconfigured, now runs sweet as a nut...I must have munged a config somewhere, and was too sleepy to see where I got it wrong (it was a midnight build, you know the way things go )
Anyway, its all going now, right through to running squirrelmail, spamassassin, clamav, etc, etc, but thanks for the interest!
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