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Offline CentralWare

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TCL Mail Server
« on: January 23, 2025, 07:13:52 PM »
I'm currently running a TCL 14.x64 image and just ran tce-ab to find there's seemingly ZERO support for email services. (sendmail, exim, postfix, etc.)
Has nobody ever put such services together in all these years under TCL?  (I'm genuinely curious.)

This leads to an inquiry to the general (tech) public: Which email related software packages do you prefer for SMTP, POP3 and IMAP under Linux?
I'm thinking Exim (MTA:LMTP/SMTP) and Dovecot (POP/IMAP) - opinions of pros/cons anyone?

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I just started compiling Dovecot (largest/longest) and other than eventually adding GSS:API to incorporate additional authentication support, things seem to be going well thus far.

Offline CNK

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Re: TCL Mail Server
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2025, 01:39:28 AM »
I've made this extension for GNU Mailutils on x86_64. It contains most things you'd want for email except an SMTP server, for which I don't know of a good option in the TC repos (although I don't need one).

Movemail can grab mail from POP/IMAP servers to mail directories in a variety of formats (passwords can be set in ~/.mu-tickets), and also convert local mail directories between formats.

Putmail is a SMTP client very much like sendmail.

POP and IMAP servers are pop3d and imap4d. I use the latter on my home LAN. For it you need to make a "mail" group and add to the users who can log in via IMAP (and presumably POP).

There are lots of other programs there that I don't use myself. The documentation can be a bit unclear, but the tools do the job once you figure them out.

For an SMTP server on a non-TC system I use Postfix, and Dovecot for POP/IMAP.