RE: General IMAP question

2017-09-01 Thread Joseph Tam
"Scott Techlist" writes: How will the IMAP account behave with the current mail_location setting below? mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u That is, where will the IMAP account's mail "go"? Right now it goes to /var/mail/[localusername]. Maybe incorrectly, I

Re: General IMAP question

2017-09-01 Thread Larry Rosenman
I will state that I use 100% mbox files with current dovecot 2.2, with zero issues. Pigeonhole, imapsieve, et al. Works great. And I have ~56G of mbox files and associated dovecot indexes. -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 214-642-9640

Re: General IMAP question

2017-09-01 Thread Jerry Kemp
IMAP has always worked fine with mbox format. Dovecot, WU IMAP, plus others Jerry On 09/ 1/17 08:17 AM, Scott Techlist wrote: That is, where will the IMAP account's mail "go"? Right now it goes to /var/mail/[localusername]. Maybe incorrectly, I assumed IMAP required Maildir format? How are

RE: General IMAP question

2017-09-01 Thread Scott Techlist
Software is Centos7, Dovecot 2.2.10 >Use that single mailbox with IMAP, others stay to POP Thanks, I considered that and looked up the ways to restrict IMAP access. But: How will the IMAP account behave with the current mail_location setting below? mail_location =

Re: General IMAP question

2017-08-31 Thread Joseph Tam
"Scott Techlist" writes: Currently my POP users have a max mbox size but that is how much it will store before they "come get it". I ensure they have at least one device set to delete from the server periodically (i.e. 1 week). So users with multiple devices get their

Re: General IMAP question

2017-08-31 Thread KSB
On 2017.08.31. 22:42, Scott Techlist wrote: My server is a limited space mailserver set up to filter spam. Most of it's mail is passed on ot an exchange server so it is not stored locally. I have a handful of pop accounts that are stored locally. For years I've used mbox type mailboxes

General IMAP question

2017-08-31 Thread Scott Techlist
My server is a limited space mailserver set up to filter spam. Most of it's mail is passed on ot an exchange server so it is not stored locally. I have a handful of pop accounts that are stored locally. For years I've used mbox type mailboxes that I'm familiar with and can access on the

[Dovecot] General IMAP Question

2011-09-14 Thread Gerald LaMontagne
Hi- I'm developing an IMAP client library in lua and tried using a literal form of the STATUS command. Dovecot rejected the command. I was successfully able to use a literal form of the LOGIN command, so I have some confidence in my code working properly. Is this correct and, if so,

Re: [Dovecot] General IMAP Question

2011-09-14 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 14.9.2011, at 14.14, Gerald LaMontagne wrote: I'm developing an IMAP client library in lua and tried using a literal form of the STATUS command. Dovecot rejected the command. I was successfully able to use a literal form of the LOGIN command, so I have some confidence in my code