imap on yellowdoglinux 2.1

[Brian Downer]

ok well I'll try to see if i can make them play nice together.


On Saturday, June 22, 2002, at 01:22  AM, Iain Stevenson wrote:

>
> 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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