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[IMAP and POP] Simultaneous use with Exim

Hello to all on these here forums. Just found out about these forums and thought I'd ask my question here.

My question has been asked before but I could not find an answer in these topics. I have a server running Debian 3.0 and the following software for mail:
Exim 3.35 ( I think, couldn't find version :s )
Qpopper 4.0
Courier-IMAP 1.4.3

My config for exim has these settings regarding the handling of mail:

Code:

  local_delivery:

  driver = appendfile

  group = mail

  mode = 0660

  mode_fail_narrower = false

  envelope_to_add = true

  return_path_add = true

##file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}###

  directory = /home/${local_part}/Maildir/

  maildir_format

I especially commented the "file = " line out because someone said that IMAP wouldn't work with it. I uncommented that line, still I cannot see any messages on my server when connecting through POP. Of course IMAP does work but I don't want 3 or 4 people connecting to my little ol' server all the time (Celeron 300) instead I want them to be able to get their mail through POP access.

I'm not really a first time newbie to Linux or running a server, yet setting up a mailserver is a little more tricky then setting up a webserver. If I haven't explained my situation clearly, I'm sorry but I don't kow how to explain it any other way :)

So in one single line: I can't get POP to work together with IMAP on my mailserver using Exim as my MTA.

Any help is appreciated :)

And for now I'm going to see if I missed anything in the manuals ...

Greetings from Holland!

Well I now know that Exim doesn't like them both running at the same time. When doing a tail on the exim paniclog it say's the following:

Code:



2004-06-08 21:59:38 Exim configuration error for local_delivery transport:

  only one of "file" or "directory" can be specified

So....How can I run them at the same time without Exim going crazy?

Is there a particular reason you need both pop and imap? It would seem they are incompatible with what they want to do with your mail...ie pop : download to users local machine and imap : leave mail on a centralized server.

I am not sure you can do both....

I want to use IMAP myself and others POP3. Of course I can make it all POP3 or all IMAP, that's not really all that hard to do. I just want to use both and was wondering how to accomplish that, if possible at all. I've read in other topics it should be possible, yet I cannot find how to do it. So it's not really that I nééd both, I'm just one of those people who wants to know what is possible with mailservers and asks the impossible. I do think it is possible because I see no reason why it should not be.

Fair enough, good luck in your search.

Have you checked the exim docs? Unfortunately they read like greek to me.

Thanks.

Too bad no one knows the answer (yet). I have read through some of the docs that came with the software, but I can't find an answer. I'll keep trying though and if I find it, I'll try and post my results here.