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

[gollum at f-m.fm]

Fastmail is a great service.. using them for years and years... NEVER a 
problem.
-Guy

On 14 Jul 2014, at 9:17, David Morrison wrote:

>> 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
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