Re: exmh with imap?

>Sorry to use offencive language in the subject line but for what might be the 
>last time (for me) may I ask if anyone knows of working solutions to allow 
>exmh to access an IMAP mail store?

This comes up on the nmh list all of the time (and it's really an
nmh question, since exmh uses mh/nmh for most of the underlying
work).  I'll give you the short answer: not really.  But ... that
might change in the future (we have something close to a reasonable
outline of how that would work; we lack for cycles to implement it).
I will spare you the details: the short answer is that it is
INCREDIBLY complicated.

>I'm aware of (but not yet tried) an nmh feature that will fetch new mail using 
>POP (and our Dovecot IMAP store does have a popd) but I don't suppose that 
>exmh using POP can handle the rest of my folders (can it?).

No.  UW-IMAP can handle MH folders, but you'd need to access them via a
network filesystem.  _If_ you have access to the filesystem where Dovecot
stores the email, each message is stored as one file, but with a funny
name; people have expressed interest in making nmh handle that, but again
a network filesystem is involved.

So the short answer is: right now, if you want the traditional usage of
IMAP where you can access server-side folders, there's no good answer.
If you want to suck everything down from an IMAP server which has a
POP-compatibility server (like Dovecot) then that works (either via
inc directly, or have fetchmail feeding into procmail/rcvstore).

(BTW, according to the archives there were no messages on exmh-users
since December, now we have a veritable flood.  Is April exmh month
or something? :-) ).

--Ken