Re: [Dovecot] basic understanding of imap in dovecot
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 10:44 -0800, dove...@paz.bz wrote: My MTA (exim) delivers email to: /mail/user dovecot, sucks that mail from /mail/user TO /home/user/mail/ No, it doesn't suck any email (by default anyway). I suppose my question is, is there a way to have dovecot empty/parse the original exim mailbox so that the customer email isn't sitting in two spots, Dovecot should be using the mailbox directly without copying it. So you've misunderstood something, but without more information I can't really guess what it is. You are sure a patient person !! I tested my setup, and confirmed that dovecot isn't doing the things which I suspected it was doing. What is 'causing' this odd behavior is my use of Thunderbird MUA. I created a new 'imap' account on Thunderbird, and started copying the email from the old POP account into my Thunderbird 'IMAP' account. It appears that it is Thunderbird which is uploading the email BACK to the mail server as I copy it from the POP to the IMAP account within it. Not sure if this is the 'correct' behavior for an MUA -- uploading back to the server, but that IS why the home/user/mail directory is getting populated... from Thunderbird uploads. Can anyone point me at a tutorial on the 'abilities' of IMAP? Jim
Re: [Dovecot] basic understanding of imap in dovecot
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 10:44 -0800, dove...@paz.bz wrote: > My MTA (exim) delivers email to: /mail/user > dovecot, sucks that mail from /mail/user TO > /home/user/mail/ No, it doesn't suck any email (by default anyway). > I suppose my question is, is there a way to have dovecot empty/parse the > original exim mailbox > so that the customer email isn't sitting in two spots, Dovecot should be using the mailbox directly without copying it. So you've misunderstood something, but without more information I can't really guess what it is. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[Dovecot] basic understanding of imap in dovecot
I have always used a pop3 daemon, and switching to dovecot has been my
introduction to imap.
Imap is foreign to me.
I am wondering if I am a little off-track here, and would like some
clarification.
My MTA (exim) delivers email to: /mail/user
dovecot, sucks that mail from /mail/user TO
/home/user/mail/
dovecot IMAP further uses /home/user/mail/.imap/folders/{.index /
.index.cache / .index.log}
the mail folder which exim uses doesn't seem to get emptied by dovecot
when it sucks the email
into /home/user/mail/ when using IMAP.
If POP3 is used via dovecot, then it appears that the interaction is
directly to the original
exim folder and that it does indeed empty (or at least it has the "FOLDER
INTERNAL DATA" entry).
I suppose my question is, is there a way to have dovecot empty/parse the
original exim mailbox
so that the customer email isn't sitting in two spots, taking up double
the space. This would
be in the IMAP environment only, as POP3 seems to be fine.
Any online references available to help a newbee understand IMAP?
Thanks!
