On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:21:59PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > fetchmail -> exim -> procmail -> IMAP storage -> dovecot -> MUA (tbird > > or mutt depending...) > > > procmail clearly handles IMAP just fine, all you have to do is put a / > > at the end of the location to store the mail and it handles it as IMAP. > > You mean Maildir? IMAP and Maildir are not the same thing. IMAP is a > protocol to access a mailstore, Maildir is a format in which a Mailstore can > be stored in. Just because procmail can drop into whatever Mailstore format > your IMAP client happens to use doesn't mean it's "talking IMAP". "Talking > IMAP" means it is using the protocol to access the Mailstore.
yeah. I realise that now. doh. that sort of leads to the question of why someone would expect procmail to "speak" IMAP in the first place. But I stand fully corrected. And I knew it but wasn't thinking... A
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