Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-11-03 Thread David Gaudine
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 03:56 PM, Carlos Sousa wrote: Besides, an imap server doesn't really work with an MTA. It just sits on top of a few directories and distributes mail to connecting clients according to a configured set of rules. So go ahead and use sendmail and courier-imap, no rea

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-11-03 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:39:17 -0500 David Gaudine wrote: > > Another question. I want to switch from wu-imap to courier-imap > for efficiency. This seems to require switching from sendmail to > exim, so I did, but reluctantly since everyone else here uses > sendmail. Is it true that there's no w

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-10-31 Thread David Gaudine
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 12:00 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: Exim's default configuration needs to be changed though in order to support maildirs, and you need to either create one (don't remember the command) you send yourself an email to create it. From the courier-base README.Debian: > Just ru

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-10-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 17:39, David Gaudine wrote: > On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 05:38 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > Also the setup file says that courier only handles maildirs. I > > currently > > have exim installed for smtp. I uncommented the option for maildirs in > > the config file and

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-10-31 Thread David Gaudine
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 10:39 AM, David Gaudine wrote: The only option I see for maildirs in the config file is for handling aliases and .forward. My incoming mail goes to /var/spool/mail/david and isn't seen by the imap client, and the maildirs option in the config file doesn't affect th

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-10-31 Thread David Gaudine
On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 05:38 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: Also the setup file says that courier only handles maildirs. I currently have exim installed for smtp. I uncommented the option for maildirs in the config file and converted the mbox into a maildir with the same name in the same loc

courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-10-30 Thread Micha Feigin
I installed the courier imap server (including ssl) on my home gateway to handle incoming mail. The problem is that when I try to connect to it I keep getting a reply that I can't authenticate with the server. When first configuring the account to connect using ssl I get a message that there is a p