qmail w/ U of W imapd
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?
Ben
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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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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
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
[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
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
