Re: need information on IMAP with sendmail

Bruce Ferrell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 02/23/2013 01:43 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> On Feb 23, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new here and I've been trying to setup an imap server for use with my sendmail/mbox installation.  I've been using sendmail with pop3 for over 10 years.  All of the instructions I've read seem to imply that I have to use maildir.  Is my understanding correct?  If not, can you point me to documantation that explains why I might certain settings over others vs "just do this and never mind what they do... It will work".  I prefer to understand what I'm setting up.
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>> Thanks in advance
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> You don't necessarily need to use maildir.  What operating system and distribution are you using?_______________________________________________
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I kind of deliberately didn't specify that I'm using OpenSUSE as I don't want a set of instructions of the type that have become so common... "zypper install blah".  That "tends" 
to result in the packager installing postfix for me and I have no intention of allowing that... So, I need to understand *HOW* IMAP daemons work and what they are looking at in 
terms of mail stores.  It's good to know I don't have to shift to maildir.




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