IMAP and Webmail
It works! I think. Sort of.
And in honour of Matt I'm going to 'fess up and put the posts most of you don't actually want to read in a new 'geek-fu' category ;-)
Couldn't get UW-IMAP to work; the distribution's package seemed to have no configuration available, and although it ought to have done what I needed without it, since it didn't I was kind of stuck. Installed Dovecot for IMAP, which looked like it would be fine, and then I had a Bright Idea and decided to change the mailbox format to Maildir (while I had no mail). Noting that QPopper doesn't support Maildir, I installed Dovecot's POP3 offering.
By this stage I've replaced my broken IMAP server and my inadequate POP3 server. A quick test reveals that - as expected - the removal of QPopper (with its DRAC support) has stopped me relaying SMTP, so I go off and find an alternative. An hour of hacking Perl scripts later, and I'm good to go: mail goes out, and I can contact the server to get it in. (To be fair I would have needed something other than QPopper-DRAC once I was using IMAP anyway, unless I wanted to rig a client to pre-auth with a dummy POP3 request every time I wanted to send).
But it wasn't getting there. At some point during the evening I found a nice test for the domain's DNS settings, and it suggested I put in an SPF record. While playing with the DNS for my domains, I did a little tidying, deleting what appeared to be a duplicate record. Turns out that the wildcard it was duplicating isn't quite wild enough, and the explicit entry was required after all. I put it right and went to sleep.
With the DNS having propagated once more, it all seems fine. I've even put the SPF records back, and will see (after a couple of hours' more propagation) whether the test recognises it.
I'm still a tad concerned about a couple of missing mails. There were two of them in my inbox yesterday; they're not there any more. Hopefully amid the confusion of all the different clients I've been using or testing with during the last day, something hit with a delete-from-server POP3 request while I wasn't looking, but it does look a lot like the mail has just disappeared.
That's not good.
And in honour of Matt I'm going to 'fess up and put the posts most of you don't actually want to read in a new 'geek-fu' category ;-)
Couldn't get UW-IMAP to work; the distribution's package seemed to have no configuration available, and although it ought to have done what I needed without it, since it didn't I was kind of stuck. Installed Dovecot for IMAP, which looked like it would be fine, and then I had a Bright Idea and decided to change the mailbox format to Maildir (while I had no mail). Noting that QPopper doesn't support Maildir, I installed Dovecot's POP3 offering.
By this stage I've replaced my broken IMAP server and my inadequate POP3 server. A quick test reveals that - as expected - the removal of QPopper (with its DRAC support) has stopped me relaying SMTP, so I go off and find an alternative. An hour of hacking Perl scripts later, and I'm good to go: mail goes out, and I can contact the server to get it in. (To be fair I would have needed something other than QPopper-DRAC once I was using IMAP anyway, unless I wanted to rig a client to pre-auth with a dummy POP3 request every time I wanted to send).
But it wasn't getting there. At some point during the evening I found a nice test for the domain's DNS settings, and it suggested I put in an SPF record. While playing with the DNS for my domains, I did a little tidying, deleting what appeared to be a duplicate record. Turns out that the wildcard it was duplicating isn't quite wild enough, and the explicit entry was required after all. I put it right and went to sleep.
With the DNS having propagated once more, it all seems fine. I've even put the SPF records back, and will see (after a couple of hours' more propagation) whether the test recognises it.
I'm still a tad concerned about a couple of missing mails. There were two of them in my inbox yesterday; they're not there any more. Hopefully amid the confusion of all the different clients I've been using or testing with during the last day, something hit with a delete-from-server POP3 request while I wasn't looking, but it does look a lot like the mail has just disappeared.
That's not good.
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