starting bincimap with ubuntu hardy

Asked by blablaa

Hi,

I installed the package bincimap and bincimap run.

Now I'm lost.
How can I start this beast.

Any instructions to get started (TSL / SSL is not needed) would be appreciated.

The imap server would be populated via a mail client
I don't need incoming mails to show up

thanks in advance for any pointers

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Martin Kaufmann (martin.kaufmann) said :
#1

Have you try to find the Answer in the FAQ of the bincimap-Developers:

http://www.bincimap.org/bincimap-faq.html

Hope this provide you an Answer for an Problem

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blablaa (blabla-dungeon) said :
#2

Hi Martin,

Apologies, I forgot to mention, that I looked already at the FAQ.
It's just, that if it contains the answer, then I don't understand it.

My problems are basically:
- when do I have to call bincimapd
- when do I have to call bincimapup
- probably I have to setup / configure imapd or something similiar, but how

Below more details:
The ubuntu package varies slightly from what the FAQ mentions:

The config files are not stored in /etc/opt/bincimap but in
 /etc/bincimap
and the binaries are located in
/usr/sbin

The only existing config file is bincimap.conf
( I used find '/etc | grep -i binc' to search

Nothing about
    * /etc/opt/bincimap/service/imap/run
    * /etc/opt/bincimap/service/imaps/run
    * /etc/opt/bincimap/xinetd/imap
    * /etc/opt/bincimap/xinetd/imaps

All that I changed in the config file is
Authentication::allow plain auth in non ssl = "yes"

as it was set to know and as I first wanted to test without SSL.

calling
/usr/sbin/bincimap_up
or (as on the bincimap-up man page)
bincimap-up /bin/ch --conf=/etc/bincimap/bincimap.conf /bin/checkpassword /usr/sbin/bincimapd Maildir
( especially /bin/checkpassword doesn't exist on ubuntu and I don't know the equivalent)

seems to result bothwith the same result, which is
that I get output on std out and bincimap seems to wait for messages on stdin

The output is:
* OK Welcome to Binc IMAP Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Andreas Aardal Hanssen at 2008-10-16 14:26:15 +0200

The fact that it works with stdin/stdout means probably, that an inetd had to be configured
However I don't find anything with
find /etc | grep -i inet

So I'm a little at a loss how to get this thigny started

bye

B

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blablaa (blabla-dungeon) said :
#3

Hm,

I'm a step further:
what happened is, that I installed (amongst others)
bincimap
  and
bincimap-run (the package containing startup stuff and quite some config files)

However the installation of bincimap-run failed due to a configuration conflict.

Now the server starts up, My mailclient is being asked to accept the certificate
but still refuses to accept my password

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blablaa (blabla-dungeon) said :
#4

The password problem was 'rather' quickly fixed.

The passwordfile ~/Maildir/.password has to contain a cleartext password AND it has to have user only read permissions