On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
-I want to run IMAP on my new system, since I need to access email from at
-least
-two remote machines. I nuked sendmail and installed the postfix RPM from
-the 6.1
-cdrom. Made a couple of minor config changes and it delivers POP mail
-fine. I then located and installed the IMAP RPM. Here's the rub: I can't
-find anything in the docs for postfix that describe how to actually deliver
-IMAP mail. The closest I can find seems to explicitly require the cyrus
-IMAP software (which doesn't come with mandrake 6.1). Am I missing
-something here?
Postfix does not deliver IMAP mail, it just delivers mail. Once
the mail has been put into a mailbox, postfix has nothing more to do.
IMAP allows a mail client to access this mail from another machine.
I use fetchmail to grab POP3 mail from my employer's Exchange
server to my workstation. Fetchmail hands this mail to sendmail which
delivers it to my system inbox. From there, IMAP allows me to access
the inbox (and other mail folders) from home.
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