| rss2maildir | Custom script to dump RSS data into maildirs |
| Dovecot | IMAP server, based on Maildir |
| PuTTY | SSH encrypted transport for security, and allows for firewall-piercing so IMAP can be used where it sometimes otherwise couldn't be |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | One possible IMAP mail reader |
Step 1: Download and compile Dovecot (dovecot.org)
Step 2: edit dovecot.conf
# only imap protocols = imap # listen only localhost, and on port 1143 listen = 127.0.0.1:1143 # no chroot, and generally work only as one local user login_chroot = no login_user = interiot log_path = /home/interiot/rss/imap/dovecot.log info_log_path = /home/interiot/rss/imap/dovecot_info.log # where the specific Maildirs are at default_mail_env = maildir:/home/interiot/rss/imap/Maildirs # use a local passwd file # create with: htpasswd -c /home/interiot/rss/imap/dovecot.passwd interiot passdb = passwd-file /home/interiot/rss/imap/dovecot.passwd
Step 3: Start IMAP server
/home/interiot/sbin/dovecot -c /home/interiot/rss/imap/dovecot.conf
Step 4: Start PuTTY with a SOCKS proxy (www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/)
putty -D 4096 interiot@68k.org
Step 5: configure Mozilla Thunderbird to use that proxy
Step 6: configure Mozilla Thunderbird's IMAP account
