cyrus-imapd

[John Abreau]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 14:05, miah wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:28:38PM +0000, Bill Holt wrote:
> > I'm not exactly sure what your trying to do, I have installed cyrus imap successfully with postfix, but if your just trying to set up imap for general purposes I recommend Washington imap or Courier imap. They are very simple to get going.
> 
> AHHH wu-imap.. evil.. I can't believe you recommended that steaming
> pile =)  Courier is fairly easy to setup and I recommend that over
> wu-imap anyday.

The first couple times I tried uw-imap, I didn't think it worked 
at all. I'd try to connect with a client, and both the client machine 
and the mail server seemed to lock up in a mutual swapping orgy. 

The third time I tried it, I got interrupted and didn't have a chance 
to give up and reboot the two machines. I left it running overnight, 
and when I returned to it in the morning I found the cause of the 
problem: imapd had treated my entire home directory as the root mail 
folder. 

At the time I was using exmh as my mail reader, which sits on top of 
MH. MH stores mail as a separate file for each message. imapd treated 
each individual message file as a separate mailbox. 

Once I realized the problem, I grabbed the source rpm and examined it. 
I found where it defined the mailbox, and changed it so it looked in 
the ~/mail directory that pine creates. After that it didn't kill 
the machines when making a client connection. 

There were two gotchas: if a new user tried to connect to imapd, 
but they didn't already have a ~/mail directory, they'd get a cryptic 
error message. The other one was, if they used pine as their imap 
client, they wouldn't see their old folders; instead of using 
~/mail/sent-mail, pine would now be using ~/mail/mail/sent-mail. 

It's not the greatest imapd available, but it is the easiest to get 
running, and as long as you're aware of its issues and can cope with 
them, it works okay. 

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