Hello, since Netscape Messenger isn't able to do proper locking on its own mbox files and I want to use both Netscape and mutt for mail reading, I'm thinking about installing a local IMAP server on my woody machine, which will only "serve" my own mails.
The current situation is this: leafnode is fetching mails to /var/spool/mail/, and Netscape is getting it from there with movemail and using it's own Message Filters to distribute the mails to several folders (mailing lists, e.g.). procmail is running, too, but only does small things like spam control and auto-replies; it doesn't deliver them to any but the default spool file. The new way would be: leafnode is fetching mails; these are processed by procmail and written to the IMAP server's mboxes or maildirs (whatever the IMAP server uses). Netscape will then access the IMAP server on localhost and always let all the mail "stay on the server". Also, I may use other MUAs (e.g., mutt) which also support IMAP, and they will all be able to share the same mail folders, with all the mails managed by the IMAP server. Am I missing a critical problem here? I've never set up an IMAP server - is it possible that procmail will deliver mails to specific IMAP folders (I know, the direction should be the other way round normally :-) ), i.e., is there an IMAP server which uses "normal" mboxes, maildirs or something else which can be written by procmail, with proper locking? Which IMAP server would you suggest for this task from these here: courier-imap cyrus-imapd uw-imapd imap Thanks, Ekkehard
