Re: IMAP Servers
W. Andrew Loe III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently using Courier-IMAP as my IMAP mail server, but the way it handles folders is a bit annoying (.FolderName/cur/ .FolderName/new/). Is this standard IMAP protocol, or do different servers handle this differently? Which other servers should I check out? The format you're describing is maildir which Courier happens to implement. Other apps use maildir too. If you're looking for something that does IMAP, you may want to check out Cyrus. I've used it successfully but it has its own mailstore. It's similar to maildir in that each message is stored in its own file, but it doesn't have the 'new' and 'cur' subdirectories, etc. thanks, mikeS -- Michael Sprague | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Partner | System and Network Engineering (SaNE), LLC use STD::disclaimer;
Re: IMAP Servers
Am 2005-01-12 16:27:05, schrieb W. Andrew Loe III: I'm currently using Courier-IMAP as my IMAP mail server, but the way it handles folders is a bit annoying (.FolderName/cur/ .FolderName/new/). Is this standard IMAP protocol, or do different servers handle this differently? Which other servers should I check out? This is the NON-BLOCKING Maildir Format. With Maildir you can have realy high load on the Server without any Locking of files, which mean, you can have incoming Messages at the same time, a client is connected and download files. Never I will change back to mailbox ! Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/8845235667100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) signature.pgp Description: Digital signature
Re: IMAP Servers
Michael F. Sprague wrote: W. Andrew Loe III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently using Courier-IMAP as my IMAP mail server, but the way it handles folders is a bit annoying (.FolderName/cur/ .FolderName/new/). Is this standard IMAP protocol, or do different servers handle this differently? Which other servers should I check out? The format you're describing is maildir which Courier happens to implement. Other apps use maildir too. If you're looking for something that does IMAP, you may want to check out Cyrus. I've used it successfully but it has its own mailstore. It's similar to maildir in that each message is stored in its own file, but it doesn't have the 'new' and 'cur' subdirectories, etc. thanks, mikeS I'm sorry, I meant to refer to its implementation of Maildir. Is this the standard format? I had a lot of trouble getting this format to work well with Apple Mail. I'm pretty sure its Mail's issue as thunderbird works perfectly.
Re: IMAP Servers
On 13 Jan 2005, at 00:07, W. Andrew Loe III wrote: I'm sorry, I meant to refer to its implementation of Maildir. Is this the standard format? I had a lot of trouble getting this format to work well with Apple Mail. I'm pretty sure its Mail's issue as thunderbird works perfectly. Eh... I don't think that this is an issue related to Mail.app. It depends on how it is served by the IMAP daemon. But I never experienced any problems when using together Courier-IMAPd, Maildir as the storage backend and Mail.app as the frontend. Regards, Philipp Kern
Re: IMAP Servers
On Jan 12, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: On 13 Jan 2005, at 00:07, W. Andrew Loe III wrote: I'm sorry, I meant to refer to its implementation of Maildir. Is this the standard format? I had a lot of trouble getting this format to work well with Apple Mail. I'm pretty sure its Mail's issue as thunderbird works perfectly. Eh... I don't think that this is an issue related to Mail.app. It depends on how it is served by the IMAP daemon. But I never experienced any problems when using together Courier-IMAPd, Maildir as the storage backend and Mail.app as the frontend. We've experienced some issues with courier-imapd and Mail.app, specifically where certain IMAP sub-Maildir mailboxes wouldn't display within Mail.app. The mailboxes work great within Thunderbird. It's been infrequent enough where we haven't really done a thorough investigation. If anybody else has had similar issues, and knows of a fix, please share! Thanks- Eric
Re: IMAP Servers
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 18:34, Eric Jennings wrote: We've experienced some issues with courier-imapd and Mail.app, specifically where certain IMAP sub-Maildir mailboxes wouldn't display within Mail.app. The mailboxes work great within Thunderbird. It's been infrequent enough where we haven't really done a thorough investigation. If anybody else has had similar issues, and knows of a fix, please share! If you don't have fam setup to automatically notify clients of new mail, Mail.app will poll to look for new messages. It makes a separate IMAP connection for each folder [1]. So check your IMAPDAEMONS setting in /etc/courier/imapd (100 was recommended for 25 clients). Another factor is the max # of authdaemons. I'm pretty sure each IMAP connection generates an authentication request. If the clients obsessively check for new mail, you may need to increase the number of authdaemons you allow courier to startup. Regards, Mark [1] http://staff.washington.edu/oren/weblog/archives/70.html
Re: IMAP Servers
I do recall at one stage you had to create a symlink back to the base of the Maildir called INBOX for Mail.app to work: ln -s Maildir/ Maildir/.INBOX Hope that helps Ned We've experienced some issues with courier-imapd and Mail.app, specifically where certain IMAP sub-Maildir mailboxes wouldn't display within Mail.app. The mailboxes work great within Thunderbird. It's been infrequent enough where we haven't really done a thorough investigation. If anybody else has had similar issues, and knows of a fix, please share! Thanks- Eric
