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jay3ld · Apr 17, 2009, 01:02 AM

Has anyone done this on Leopard?
The only tutorials I found on this are for Mac Os 10.0-2. Nothing recent really.

I have been trying what I could and even built imap4 and qpopper from source, but haven't had much luck from there.
Fink was a bust as I get the same issues :|

Code:
Apr 16 22:01:07 Laptop sudo[80509]:   me : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/me ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sw/sbin/popper qpopper -s
Apr 16 22:01:07 Laptop popper[80509]: Unable to obtain socket and address of client: Socket operation on non-socket (38)

I guess that recompiling qpopper with standalone mode (From what I read in a doc), would fix this.

Any ideas though. I am just to tired tonight to do more tweaking on this.

besson3c · 12:54 PM

Why use Qpopper? Why not just use either Cyrus IMAP or Courier IMAP, for instance, which both support both IMAP and POP?

Cyrus IMAP is built into OS X Server and is well suited for building IMAP clusters (which you can do either with unified or standalone IMAP and Murder servers), is useful for designing workflows which involve automatic mailbox creation and deletion since the administrative API is an open Perl based API. Cyrus mailboxes are formatted so that each message is its own file, and there is also a database index.

If you are looking for something simpler, Courier IMAP uses the Maildir mailbox format, works with Cyrus SASL as an authentication layer that supports several authentication sources, and is generally easy to get going. There is also Dovecot which is a popular IMAP server which I've been meaning to look into.

Let us know if IDLE/Push support is important for you too...

jay3ld · Apr 17, 2009, 01:46 PM

IDLE/Push support is not needed at all.

This is for my laptop for development purposes. I need to be able to send and receive mail locally. I can send mail out via sendmail, but reading it is a pita. I hate using the mail command line.
I will try Cyrus IMAP and see if I can't get it to run. I have been testing these things by starting them up, reading /var/log/system.log and then trying to telnet to either port 110 (pop3) or 143 (imap).