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UnixReview.com
June 2005
The Open Road: Installing IMAP on Debian
by Joe "Zonker"
Brockmeier
Last month, I started talking about Postfix on Debian Sarge, which was still
the "testing" distribution at the time. Since then, the Debian team has (finally)
released Debian Sarge as stable. A big "congrats" to the Debian team for pushing
it out the door.
This month, I will cover using IMAP to get email. A lot of folks really like
IMAP because it allows them to see the same set of "folders" from any mail client,
which is a really handy feature if you happen to use more than one computer
to check your mail.
Getting started
To begin, you'll want to have the following packages:
courier-authdaemon
courier-base
courier-doc
courier-imap
courier-imap-ssl
courier-ssl
fam
libfam0c102
openssl
The nice thing is that you shouldn't have to install all the packages individually.
If you install courier-imap-ssl using APT, that should pull down
the other packages, excepting fam and courier-doc.
The courier-doc package is optional, but I usually am in favor
of installing the docs unless it's across a large number of servers. Disk space
these days is quite cheap, so no reason to avoid installing the documentation.
While installing, you'll be asked if you want to have separate files or create separate directories for Web-based administration. I'm not using Web-based administration, so this column assumes that it's the default setup.
All of the configuration files are stored under /etc/courier.
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