Comments on: Starting the mailserver programs automatically after a reboot

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:40:37 +0000

Thank you for the reply.

I used your IMAP Startup-Item-script as a blueprint. It is working.

By: Richard5

Richard5 — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:14:53 +0000

I don’t understand why you would want this but you can by adding the startup script to the “Login Items” in the Accounts panel in the System Preferences.

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:22:23 +0000

How can I write to start Courier POP daemon when I login?

By: Brett Porter » Blog Archive » Moving to Mac OS X: from Thunderbird to Apple Mail

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:45:15 +0000

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By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:52:56 +0000

Hello Stephen,

your problem has nothing to do with this specific installation. Courier-IMAP works with one “home-folder” named INBOX. Only within this folder you can create, modify or create new folder. Just go to Mail -> Preferences -> Accounts -> Advanced and set INBOX as IMAP-path-prefix.

Richard – thanks for the great hints in your tutorial! Compiling on MacOS X is really more complicated than on Linux.

Jan

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:20:48 +0000

Hi Richard,

Any idea why Apple Mail fails to download the full folder list from any virtual email account?

It sees the inbox, but there is no drafts or junk. Nor do the the sent items appear.

By: Richard5

Richard5 — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:01:25 +0000

I don’t exactly know why I did this, it’s been a while… Could you elaborate on the why ?

The httpd daemon should run as www:www, it’s safer that way. I’ll correct the documentation for the apache install.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:29:33 +0000

Why do you install them in /System/Library and not /Library?

This is in general, not recommended.

The httpd starts up as user daemon, cant read or write postfixadmin which has been set to www:www