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Blog post / Mutt IMAP Cache Vs Courier-Cone ?

admin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The thing every blogger likes: Comments ? No ? Really ?

Anyways, i just added a RSS comment Feed to this blog. (No I won’t put the url somewhere since NewsAggregators eat a bunch of bandwith only to see nobody post, i will only give it to friends .. :)

But, this is not the main stuff, while browsing this RSS feed i discover one interesting comment about Mutt and IMAP cache. I now use courier-cone (no-url-yet) and it pretty cool and happy w/ IMAP. I like the IMAP Adressbook system which is really pleasant to use. Anyway check out this post if you want to test the new imap cache for mutt, and thanks Glanzmann for the post :)

For lazy readers the patch is here

Securing courier-imap

admin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I spent part of the day to install a virtual mail server, and i discover that there is a really simple way to secure courier-imap. By defaut when you use this kind of server the auth is made against the standard pam module. This is really simple, but what happend if someone is able to read your imap password. Yes he get the account password.

Courier imap can do the auth against a lot of stuff. Simply change the authmodulelist=authpam to authmodulelist=authuserdb. This will use the file /etc/courier/userdb.

userdb "username" set home=/home/username
                      mail=/home/username/Maildir
                      uid=UID gid=GID
userdbpw | userdb "username" set imappw
makeuserdb

So now you can use a different password for your account and your imap, and you can choose who can access to imap server.

Enjoy Mutt

admin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I get it! I managed to use mutt w/ my imap folders, with hooks and everything fine. This is not really hard, but :

libsas-modules break the SSL certification (without any error message)
mutt really lack of header cache for imap (there is a patch for Maildir but no for imap)

### IMAP ########################################
set imap_user="jkx"
set spoolfile=imaps://mail.larsen-b.com/
set folder=imaps://mail.larsen-b.com/INBOX
set record=imaps://mail.larsen-b.com/INBOX.Sent
mailboxes  imaps://mail.larsen-b.com/

### Hooks #######################################
folder-hook INBOX.Sent 'set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-20.20t (%41) %s"'
folder-hook INBOX.JOB my_hdr From: XXXXX