[oclug] imap

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 12/10/02 Joe Burpee did speaketh:

> Well I guess learning's ok, if you must.  But *I* have a much better
> idea.  Learning can be dangerous.  You should do what *I* do.  Never
> learn anything.  <:-0

    :)

> Given your objective, you probably do want to use imap remotely.  (The
> most remote I get with imap is across the floor, and I basically use
> David's approach from elsewhere.  My past use of mutt/imap with large
> mboxen was, shall we say, a learning experience; so I use mutt sans imap
> on the mail server, & mostly gui (caching) clients from across the
> floor.)

    I plan to use it via ssh port-forwarding through my firewall to my
desktop, to read my mail from a few different imap-enabled mail clients I plan
to try out. Sylpheed and Evolution mostly, but I don't think it will be long
before I'm back to just ssh and Mutt. I have yet to see anything nearly as
powerful.

> As I mentioned there's nothing to configure, so not much to learn there.
> But on the matter you raised about formats, the UW imapd docs have a
> little item on why they think flat mbox is better than Cyrus, Maildir,
> etc.  Might learn something there, eh.  ;-)

    Where would I find this imap daemon? I didn't see it listed pre-packaged
in Debian. I may have to build it. 

    Mike

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