dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 04:21:43PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > I just install courier-imap on my system to let my dad receive mail on > | > it. The documentation is exceedingly sparse. I couldn't even find > | > any mention of where it expects the folders to be. I managed to work > | > out that I need a symlink from ~/Maildir to /var/mail/$USER. > | > | Yeah, Debian-specific documentation for courier is non-existent. I > | despise when developers don't include a README that explains the default > | Debian configuration for a package. > | > | That said, there is a courier-doc package that mirrors the documentation > | from the website. > > Oh, I missed the courier-doc package before. Still, the docs on the > website are not very helpful. They have lots of detail on how to > compile it, but that isn't helpful because one of debian's buildd's > did that for me. > > I didn't find any info that explains the config file or options or > even where it looks for the mail.
Yeah, I went through the same trouble when I set up courier. I gave up trying to customize it and just went with the default setup, once I figured out what it was. > | > Is there any way I can change it to use /var/mail/$USER for the INBOX > | > and normally-named directories under ~/Mail for subfolders? I found > | > that if I create a subfolder named "foo" it will be stored in > | > ~/Maildir/.foo. > | > | AFAIK, the courier mail servers need to have all of the mail in a single > | directory. It then follows the naming scheme "INBOX" at the top level > | (~/Maildir on the local file system), with folders named "INBOX.foo" > | (~/Maildir/.foo locally), and sub-folders within those named > | "INBOX.foo.bar" (~/Maildir/.foo.bar locally). > > Yeah, I found that, but I want it to look in ~/Mail for the > subfolders of INBOX (and not prepend a '.'). If it could do that then > I could switch back and forth between using mutt normally and using > imap for something. > > | uw-imapd will do what you're asking, but it's a shitty mail server. > > If it will do what I want ... why shouldn't I use it? > Please elaborate on the cons of uw-imapd. It's slow, bloated, buggy, has had security issues... It also interacts poorly with certain imap clients, including outlook. It doesn't natively support maildir, but I believe the Debian version has been patched to support it. Partially relevant, there's a performance comparison of courier with maildir vs. uw-imap with mbox here: http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/ -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
