[ILUG] imap question

Padraig Brady padraig.brady at corvil.com
Thu Nov 14 16:32:05 GMT 2002


Patton, Tony wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 15:52, bryan hunt wrote:
> 
>>Hello all,
>>
> 
> 8<
> 
>>So I have looked at IMAP, the imap that comes with Mandrake 9 ( which rocks )
>>does not support nested folders, the reason for this I discovered is that 
>>postfix stores the email in a mailfile format rather than a maildir format in 
>>/var/spool/mail ... 
>>
>>So  if I want to provide a useful service I'm going to have to ditch postfix 
>>and instead get qmail, is this true ? 
>>
>>Is anyone else running an IMAP Linux server what combinations are working 
>>well for you people ?
>>
> 
> I have been running Postfix + Courier-IMAP for over a year now, on an
> Alpha 1000 4/233. I followed to howto at
> http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/RH71-Postfix-Courier-Maildrop-IMAP/
> 
> As long as you read thru it carefully it should be ok, I missed a couple
> of bits the first time.
> 
> The only problem is that for some reason Mozilla Mail does not like it,
> but I am more than happy using Galeon.

Were you experiencing weird hangs in the mozilla client?
I noticed that, and a little tcpdumping showed:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92072
Vote for it if you like.

Padraig.




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