[MlMt] Want a simple IMAP server to run locally... every proposed method is too complicated for my little brain... any help out there?

[David Morrison]

>This is a sort of last gasp.
>
>I need to have offline mail storage. It's essential.
>
>I like MailMate for many reasons, none of which offset the 
>requirement for offline mail storage.
>
>It seems that I need a local IMAP server. It need not communicate 
>with the outside world, just work inside my own user space. The only 
>use of this server will be to provide MailMate with a way to 'see' 
>the offline mail.
>
>I have purchased Emailchemy which claims to have an IMAP server but 
>the app implements only a tiny fraction of the server functions. 
>It's a good app for reading old mail but it's functionality stops 
>there.
>
>I have tried to get dovecot running both from the dovecot website 
>and MacPorts. 
><http://hellopoetry.com/poem/101/a-childs-christmas-in-wales/>Oh, 
>easy for Leonardo!
>
>Does anyone have a canned approach that works out-of-the-box (i.e. 
>without extensive modifications to .conf files and all that stuff?)

Instead of doing your own, for $40 per year you can have 15GB of 
storage on a professionally-run IMAP hosting service.

http://fastmail.fm

IMAP is all they do. It was recommended by Adam Engst of Tidbits 
newsletter fame. I tried the free trial, and it worked as advertised.

Cheers

David