Project Cyrus
Most of my free time at work yesterday and today has been spent trying to find a way round a mail problem at work. Work have introduced a new IMAP server and my “mail client of choice”:http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/index.html doesn’t like it. Whilst Outlook happily connects to it, The Bat! just sits there with its sonar failing. Gaagh, I don’t want to use Outlook, and the Mozilla mail program doesn’t seem much better.
So, I decided to use my own server, and to that end installed Cyrus IMAP Server on a Linux box here at work. Then I can send everything from my work account to that server.
It was fairly easy to install, as Linux things go when you use the source, and although I had some authentication issues to sort out, it now works. I’ve still got the other half of the equation, sending all emails over to this server, to sort out, but I’m almost proud of it working.
Of course, now I’ve done it, I’ve realised that I probably didn’t need an IMAP server to get the job done, just a UNIX mailbox.