What mail client are you using?
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
-At 08:08 PM 12/9/99 -0800, you wrote:
->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.
-
-
-well i must be doing something wrong then, because with no further changes,
-i can access my mail using POP but not using IMAP. i thought IMAP
-supported actual folders, not just messages concatenated together?
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