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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: IMAP server, anyone?
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:25:33 -0700
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Abraham Backus wrote:

> I've been having the same problems with the latest versions of the 
> IMAP server, which is one of the reasons why I haven't yet initiated 
> the steps to have the server added to cygwin setup. 

Good. At aleast I wasn't seeing things!

> I have been having success with the 2000c version of the server with 
> some patches. This version runs ok for me with a typical inetd.conf 
> configuration and it handles multiple users without trouble. It will 
> put your INBOX file in /var/mail/<username> and any other mailbox 
> files in your home directory.

One thing that always bothered me about IMAP servers is that they 
present your whole home directory when subscribing to mailboxes. I would 
prefer it if there was a setting to say "Just show me what's under say 
~/Mail". Perhaps there is...

> I imagine the latest versions work fine on linux, so if you're going 
> to be putting this server on your linux box, a new version of imap 
> (2002c) was just announced.

Still trying to get sendmail configured properly on my Linux box. I did 
set up the IMAP daemon and it seems to be functioning as expected already.



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