imap on yellowdoglinux 2.1

[Iain Stevenson]

UW IMAP does look in the home directory and is compatible with the 
structure of mail directories used by the standard YDL install.  This makes 
it the simplest option if you want to try IMAP.  You should be able to 
define the mail directory as the base of the directory search made by your 
IMAP client - hence eliminating some of the directory listing.  I did this 
before moving to Cyrus IMAP but unfortunately cannot remember how - sorry. 
Cyrus IMAP keeps user mail in a different way and not in the home directory.

You can use POP3 and IMAP together - you just need to remember to make sure 
that your POP3 client does not delete mail after retrieving it - or IMAP 
will be left with nothing to read!

  Iain




--On Friday, June 21, 2002 21:50:00 -0700 Brian Downer 
<berk8100@wiredgod.com> wrote:

> so you're saying that it's normal for the imap server to look for email
> in the users homer dir?  I guess that makes sense if you're maildir's.
> now that i think about it...is it even possible for me to use both pop
> and imap servers at the same time..   i would think that it would be
> difficult to combind the mailboxes. -berk
>
> On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 09:41  AM, Iain Stevenson wrote:
>
>>
>> That's "normal" - you should look for an IMAP HOWTO.  Basically, you
>> need
>> to specify the base directory and separator (/ I think for UW) within
>> the
>> IMAP client.  Cyrus IMAP is better but much, much harder to install and
>> set
>> up.
>>
>>   Iain
>>
>>
>>
>>> I'm having a hard time getting uw imap4 to run on my yellowdoglinux
>>> machine.
>>> I can compile and install it fine.
>>> But I can't configuring it for use with my dmail pop system.
>>>
>>> With the default configuration I was able to login in with unix
>>> authentication but it started
>>> to download all the contents of my home directory.  It's carzy!  Help!
>>>
>>> imap: http://www.washington.edu/imap/
>>> dmail: http://netwinsite.com/dmail_first.htm
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to configure imap for use with dmail???
>>>
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