Quick and Simple Email Archival

Recently I wanted to empty email out of my university email account as I was only allowed 50 MB. After asking for suggestions on irc://freenode/fedora, I came up with the following solution:

Software Involved

• MySQL (to store settings)
• Apache HTTPD (for http serving)
• PHP (for scripting)
• Dovecot (for imap/pop)
• RoundCube (for webmail access)

The target distribution is Fedora Core 5. Also, I will not go in depth into areas where the respective installtion manuals would be more verbose.

Getting the necessary components

To install MySQL:

yum install mysql

To install Apache:

yum install httpd

To install PHP:

yum install php php-mysql

To install Dovecot:

yum install dovecot

To install RoundCube:
http://trac.roundcube.net/trac.cgi/wiki/Howto_Install

Once everything is in place, tweak the configurations to your own needs. I chose to allow Dovecot to server all network interfaces, but I did not allow it through my firewall since I ran RoundCube on the same machine as Dovecot. Alternatively, I could have bound only to 'lo'. Or, I could have allowed it at the firewall level to allow me to connect with an IMAP client remotely.

Please submit comments if you would like clarification on anything.

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