[IMAP and POP] Simultaneous use with Exim

MangaManiac · 06-08-2004, 01:10 PM

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!

MangaManiac · 06-08-2004, 03:06 PM

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?

bulliver · 06-08-2004, 03:33 PM

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....

MangaManiac · 06-08-2004, 04:01 PM

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.

bulliver · 06-08-2004, 04:11 PM

Fair enough, good luck in your search.

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

MangaManiac · 06-09-2004, 02:13 AM

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.