Re: qmail w/ U of W imapd
Hello Ben, I had some problems with (the RedHat-binary-version) of imapd 4.5 and delivery to $HOME/mbox and deletion of messages (not if I explicitely marked them for deletion but if I moved them to another mailfolder and they were marked as deleted by imapd automatically). In version 4.6 imapd first does look for $HOME/mbox (or $HOME/mbx) if it is there and the deletion-problem was gone as well. Regards Mirko -- mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] privat: http://sites.inka.de/picard commerce: http://www.webideal.de qmail, ldap, serialfax, rh-isdn: http://www.webideal.de/#downloads
RE: qmail w/ U of W imapd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > there are instructions with qmail (read INSTALL.vsm) for configuring > qmail to deliver to /var/mail, and there are instructions with the UW > imap package (at least v4.5 and 4.6 in docs/CONFIG) for how to modify > imapd to read from a users home dir. If you want to make UW IMAP read from the Mailbox file in the user's home directory, you can just apply the imap-4.5-qmail.patch from my davideous.com/imap-maildir/ site. This patch causes the Mbox driver to look for the INBOX in the standard qmail location of ~/Mailbox instead of in the system mail spool (which is /var/spool/mail/$USER on my system). - David Harris Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
Re: qmail w/ U of W imapd
Ben Beuchler wrote:
>
> Is it absolutely necessary to do this? I would like to at least get it
> functioning with 'mbox' support before I start messing with patches. is there
> anything else I need to do first? I have a nasty suspicion that if it's not
> working now, with it's 'most favored' mailbox format, it's going to work even
> less well with a patched mailbox format.
>
> Ben
>
> > > I just installed the U of W imapd. Apparently there are no configuration
> > > options for this server. My understanding is that it uses whatever mailbox
> > > setup is currently being used by Linux. So... I set up a .qmail file in a
> > > users ("charlie") home directory containing the line "/home/charlie/mbox" and
> > > sent a half dozen messages to that user. I viewed his mbox file with less just
> > > to confirm it did indeed contain the messages. Then I set up an account for
> > > charlie in Outlook 98 and attempted to view his messages. Outlook connected
> > > just fine, but didn't indicate that there was any mail to be read in his folder!
> > >
> > > Am I missing something?
> >
> > Yes. Use Maildir delivery, and David Harris fine patch-FIXES for the
> > qmail-imap-patches. Everything is nicely wrapped up here:
UW imapd, by default pulls mail from /var/mail or /var/spool/mail.
qmail, on the other hand, delivers to a users home dir. you need to
either configure qmail to deliver to /var/mail or configure imapd to use
mailboxes in the users home dir. NOTE: the authors of qmail spent time
finding good ways of avoiding /var/mail, so i'd recommend you not go
there.
there are instructions with qmail (read INSTALL.vsm) for configuring
qmail to deliver to /var/mail, and there are instructions with the UW
imap package (at least v4.5 and 4.6 in docs/CONFIG) for how to modify
imapd to read from a users home dir.
both of these options will allow you to continue to use the mbox
format.
Re: qmail w/ U of W imapd
Is it absolutely necessary to do this? I would like to at least get it
functioning with 'mbox' support before I start messing with patches. is there
anything else I need to do first? I have a nasty suspicion that if it's not
working now, with it's 'most favored' mailbox format, it's going to work even
less well with a patched mailbox format.
Ben
> > I just installed the U of W imapd. Apparently there are no configuration
> > options for this server. My understanding is that it uses whatever mailbox
> > setup is currently being used by Linux. So... I set up a .qmail file in a
> > users ("charlie") home directory containing the line "/home/charlie/mbox" and
> > sent a half dozen messages to that user. I viewed his mbox file with less just
> > to confirm it did indeed contain the messages. Then I set up an account for
> > charlie in Outlook 98 and attempted to view his messages. Outlook connected
> > just fine, but didn't indicate that there was any mail to be read in his folder!
> >
> > Am I missing something?
>
> Yes. Use Maildir delivery, and David Harris fine patch-FIXES for the
> qmail-imap-patches. Everything is nicely wrapped up here:
>
> http://www.davideous.com/imap-maildir/
>
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Re: qmail w/ U of W imapd
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:43:12AM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> The adventures with IMAP continue.
>
> I just installed the U of W imapd. Apparently there are no configuration
> options for this server. My understanding is that it uses whatever mailbox
> setup is currently being used by Linux. So... I set up a .qmail file in a
> users ("charlie") home directory containing the line "/home/charlie/mbox" and
> sent a half dozen messages to that user. I viewed his mbox file with less just
> to confirm it did indeed contain the messages. Then I set up an account for
> charlie in Outlook 98 and attempted to view his messages. Outlook connected
> just fine, but didn't indicate that there was any mail to be read in his folder!
>
> Am I missing something?
Yes. Use Maildir delivery, and David Harris fine patch-FIXES for the
qmail-imap-patches. Everything is nicely wrapped up here:
http://www.davideous.com/imap-maildir/
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