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Prism is a fairly new Mozilla project that runs web pages as a program. Which is to say, they take a web page and run it in its own program window without an address bar or menus or anything like that. Nice and isolated.

More useful, for my purposes, is to set this as the default mail application. See, I use the panel application mail notification, which checks things like IMAP and Gmail accounts and tells me if I have mail. So rather than head to a browser, open a new tab, and read things sent to Gmail, I've configured mail notification to open the default mail app whenever I click on it's notification icon. And this opens a Gmail session in a new window.

Install prism. Then run prism and create an application and desktop shortcut for GMail: http://mail.google.com. Remember what you named it. Then create a shell script somewhere that calls

/opt/prism/prism -webapp $NAME@prism.app

Then, change the default mail app to call that script, with a %s appended to the end. I'm not sure why, but it works better that way. It periodically stops working, but running the command from shell tends to make it work again. Again, I'm not sure why.

http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg34933.html

dpkg --remove
dpkg --purge

then reinstall

The community docs for postfix and dovecot are pretty thorough. Postfix seemed not to work, and dovecot has issues. A restart fixed those issues, and hopefully signing my own certificates, as below, resolves the annoying server confirm thing that always used to pop up.

Here's how to sign your own certificates
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/284

Here's something about converting mboxes to maildirs, but I don't know whether I want to do that just yet.
http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/

This is as much for my memory as it is for anyone else, hence the tag and the descriptive subject line. In general, I find that I don't remember how I set things up, and so when it comes time to do it again, I need to look it up/figure it out. So I'll be making these posts as a way to job my memory. You're welcome to use the information and comment, but you need not. I'm not going to filter them, unless people come out of the woodwork and ask me to filter these posts.

Anyway, I found this website for connecting to pine with IMAP+SSL. I've done this for SWARPA, with the novalidate hack, because I don't feel like dealing with the three-quarters of the webpage beyond that. I can live with not certifying SWARPA - I trust the sysadmins.