For some reason, there were aliases that were set so that my support mail was going to the root account. I have since removed this alias, and all support mail goes to ... support. I wanted to know if it was possible to retrieve the mail that was previously forwarded to root from my support account. I have Postfix/Fedora Core4/ISPConfig
If your root email account is reachable via imap, you can copy the mails with an imap capable email client like thunderbird.
What if I don't have an IMAP capable email client? Is there a file/folder that I can just move into a different user's account?
I found this: http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/mailutil.1.html But maybe you can use fetchmail to fetch the mails from the mailbox and send it to the support mailbox. I think I've once done something like this, but I can't remember which program I used for it...
Maybe the best/easiest way is to use my imap client. However, I've never used an IMAP client, so I'm not exactly sure how to set it up. I'm pretty sure I setup IMAP Server on my server (used The Perfect Fedora Core 4 Setup Guide). If my mail server address is: mail.knifecenter.com, would the IMAP server also be mail.knifecenter.com Or is there a different name for the server?
That's what I thought. However, when I setup my imap account with the correct server setting and the correct username (root) and password, it won't do anything ... How do I check to see if the server is running properly?
Have a look at your mail log and your messages log for errors and make shure you have not blocked the imap port with a firewall or in acse you are behind a router, have forwarded the imap port to your server.
I've looked at my mail logs and there is no record of any connection attempt for an IMAP connection. Maybe it is a firewall issue. Is there a software firewall built into Fedora Core 4? Because I do not have the server behind a firewall (at least not one with port 143 closed).
How do I check that out? Just to let you know, I tried logging onto the IMAP server with a username that I know works with POP and SMTP access, and that account does not work either.
