From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 10:22:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F0A71065675 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:22:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from milu@dat.pl) Received: from jab.dat.pl (dat.pl [80.51.155.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0D488FC0A for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:22:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jab.dat.pl (jsrv.dat.pl [127.0.0.1]) by jab.dat.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BEB45D; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:03:16 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at dat.pl Received: from jab.dat.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by jab.dat.pl (jab.dat.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id bSyVG5eNTdbv; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:03:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from snifi.localnet (unknown [212.69.68.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jab.dat.pl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 82D2555; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:03:14 +0100 (CET) From: Maciej Milewski To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:04:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-ARCH; KDE/4.5.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4D2857EE.1090808@lazlarlyricon.com> <4D321573.80903@lazlarlyricon.com> In-Reply-To: <4D321573.80903@lazlarlyricon.com> X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201101171104.07180.milu@dat.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems [SOLVED] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:22:31 -0000 On Saturday 15 of January 2011 22:45:23, Rolf Nielsen wrote: > Thanks for the input I received from you guys. I've got things running > in a way I'm quite happy with now. And with your input and a little > further digging on my part, it turned out to be pretty simple. > > I kept sendmail, set up dovecot as an IMAP server, and put > "| /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver" in ~/.forward. That's all I did. > And it works just like I want it to. Realising it was that simple made > me laugh at myself. But then again, mail servers isn't my area of > expertise. > > I find using ~/.forward for this a bit of an ugly hack, but as long as > I'm the only one using this computer, I can live with it, though I would > prefer to have it in /etc/mail/aliases instead, but that just gives me > warnings about deliver not being run as the correct user (yes, I did try > with the -d option). If someone knows how to fix that, I'd be greatful, > but it's not that important, at least not for the time being, so don't > lose any sleep over it for me. > > Anyway, thanks again for the input, > > Rolf Nielsen As you left sendmail and not mention about reconfiguring it I think that you should do it according to Dovecot wiki: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail Maciej