imap

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Paul Tomblin wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:37:43 +0100 (CET), Roger Grosswiler
> <roger at gwch.net> wrote:
> 
>>why not cyrus? its stable and reliable, ok, perhaps a little bit overkill...
> 
> Because, like I said in the quoted text, I can't figure out how to configure it.

Cyrus HOWTO:

http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cyrus-IMAP.html

Cyrus is not as hard to configure as it might look.  The part that you 
most likely missed is that you needed to create mailbox manually using 
Cyrus admin commands.  Also, you can't use procmail as delivery agent 
anymore, you need to use different MAILER definition in sendmail.mc. 
Mail will not go to /var/spool/mail, but rather to /var/spool/imap.  The 
advantage of this is that *all* your folers will be in /var/spool/imap 
(in /var/spool/mail, only your INBOX folder is stored there, everything 
else must be somewhere in your home directory).

For small home install, Cyrus is probably overkill (as Roger stated). 
But it is always nice to learn something new ;-)

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