[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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