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 Howto: Setup a home mailserver

So the first thing is to understand the setup:

 an "email server" can be made up of various bits, the bit that sends emails out it called the mail transfer agent or MTA

 fetchmail gets email from your ISP and delivers to local MTA local MTA saves in /var/mail (or /home/user/Mail) dovecot serves /var/mail and /home/user/Mail via POP3 and/or IMAP roundcube web application talks IMAP to dovecot to view emails and talks to the local MTA to send emails

This mailserver was configured on Ubuntu server 6.06 with a [continued…]

From ThomasAdam:

Rename all files in a directory to lower case

mmv "[A-Z]" "[a-z]" * 

Or, for Debian users, assuming all files are in the same directory:

rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *

and assuming that they are in subdirectories under the current directory:

find -type f | xargs rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/'

(Note that the Debian version of “rename” is not the same as the version shipped with many other distributions. The above won’t work on Red Hat, for example. It is perl based.)

From ThomasAdam:

This example also is potentially dangerous, as it assumes [continued…]