Scott Silva wrote:
on 3-12-2008 11:07 AM Tim Alberts spake the following:
Scott Silva wrote:
on 3-10-2008 6:09 PM Tim Alberts spake the following:
I'm moving to IMAP and trying to understand all the details of
where to save email. The system is CentOS running sendmail -
procmail which delivers as:
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/
I'm trying also to use Usermin as the webmail client. I can get
mail to deliver to $HOME/Maildir/ and I can get clients
(thunderbird outlook etc) to view them. However Usermin seems
stuck with saving 'Drafts' 'Sent' and 'Trash' in $HOME/mail/ as
mbox and Dovecot won't find them even when I use the setting:
maildir:~/Maildir:mbox:~/mail/
I don't know what exact question to ask to I'll just ask for any
thoughts on this?
Second question, different topic. Are there problems with running
POP3 and IMAP? I've always run POP3 and I'm thinking to move to
IMAP for some clients so the Usermin webmail will be better
'synchronized' with the users inbox.
Do you have usermin set to access mail by IMAP or the default of
accessing the mail directly on the filesystem?
I did have Usermin configured to read directly. I have changed this
so Usermin goes through the local IMAP server (dovecot) and Usermin
seems to be working much better with the mail.
However, I have a new problem...
I've changed my mail location back to mbox as follows:
mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
This is working great with two exceptions.
First, using mozilla thunderbird as a client, I can create folders,
but I can't create sub-folders. Why might this be?
How are you trying to create the folders?
With mbox you have to create the folders with a trailing slash
"foldername/".
You can only have either a folder or another mbox, but you can't have
both.
OOOOOHHHHH...that worked, thank you.
Second, I have Usermin configured to save a copy of sent mail in a
folder 'Sent'. mozilla thunderbird is doing this OK, but Usermin is
not. It gives me the following error on the web interface:
Failed to send mail : Failed to set IMAP flags : Error in IMAP
command UID: Invalid arguments.
I never thought usermin as a webmail client was very good anyway. It
seemed as more of a kludge then polished software, especially when
accessing mail by IMAP.
I won't argue that statement much. I will say that I have been using
Webmin/Usermin since I started with Linux about 10 years ago and Webmin
has always been an outstanding graphical tool for configuring a Linux
box and all the server apps etc. Usermin, I have watched it's evolution
over time, and my opinion of it today is, it is just about evolved to a
very usable and well developed application. Plus, it offers far more
than just reading email. Shell interface, MySQL interface, gives users
the ability to change their account passwords. Feature wise, I don't
think anything compares to Usermin.
Checking through the logs, I don't see any other errors so I'm having
trouble find out why? The email does get delivered, but no copy is
saved.
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On your second question, I run bothPOP3 and IMAP on the server. Some
people with light traffic just want to get the mail to their PC, and
other users want IMAP so they can work with their mail from multiple
locations and computers.
That's exactly what I'm going for. Good to hear I can expect it to
work fine.
I still have problems with outlook on pop3, especially if the mail is
left on the server and also accessed with another MUA like outlook
express -- don't ask -- stupid PHB decision -- but I haven't had other
problems. I have Thunderbird as my MUA of choice, but also have both
outlook and outlook express accessing my IMAP store occasionally for
testing and debugging purposes. I'm also testing several webmail
softwares on the same mail store and I haven't seen any gotchas.
I too use Thunderbird, but all my clients will undoubtedly use Outlook
or Eudora so I have more testing to find the gotchas with those too.
