Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:21:56AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I always find that I need a folder *after* I've fired up my MUA, so I > > just use it to make my folders. In mutt > > > > s=/ > > If you want maildir folder, then you should

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I always find that I need a folder *after* I've fired up my MUA, so I > just use it to make my folders. In mutt > > s=/ If you want maildir folder, then you should probably set mbox_type=Maildir, otherwise I think it defaults to mbox -- John L

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:18:00PM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) writes: > > > Folders are simply subdirectories inside the main maildir whose names > > start with a period, and which are themselves maildirs. For example, > > the command "maildirmake -f Draf

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-07 Thread John L Fjellstad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) writes: > Folders are simply subdirectories inside the main maildir whose names > start with a period, and which are themselves maildirs. For example, > the command "maildirmake -f Drafts mail/Maildir" creates > mail/Maildir/.Drafts, that has the usual tmp, new

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:54:11PM +, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 22:43 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > There is one(?) caveat though. Don't create your Maildir directory by > > hand. USE the maildirmake program and then create your mailboxes using > > the -f switch of maildi

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-05 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 22:43 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > There is one(?) caveat though. Don't create your Maildir directory by > hand. USE the maildirmake program and then create your mailboxes using > the -f switch of maildirmake. Believe me, it can save you lots of grief. > Otherwise courier-i

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 01:25:13AM +, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 07:56 -0700, Kelly wrote: > > Just a request for opinions here guys. I have read several articles > > about Courier and Dovecot. What is your opinions about which to go > > with. > > There's really very little

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 01:25:13AM +, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > Haven't done Dovecot on Debian (do it all the time on RHEL tho). For > Courier, just apt-get install courier-imap (I think that's the package > name). There's nothing to configure unless you want to use virtual > users/domains an

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-04 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 07:56 -0700, Kelly wrote: > Just a request for opinions here guys. I have read several articles > about Courier and Dovecot. What is your opinions about which to go > with. There's really very little difference. Dovecot is supposedly a little faster, but if you reached the

Re: ??: IMAP Mail server question

2007-02-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:17 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:29:22PM +0200, Nick Demou wrote: > > > > courier-IMAP was easy to install and setup > > > > works fine with many users accessing the same maildir about 20 > > maildirs in a low spec server. Hundreds of folde

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-02-28 Thread Kelly
We are looking at about 100 users connected at our office. There will also be about 30 or so sites w/email hosted for our agents. in total about 200 users or so. Thanks Kelly Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/07 08:56, Kelly wrote: Just a request

Re: ??: IMAP Mail server question

2007-02-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:29:22PM +0200, Nick Demou wrote: > > courier-IMAP was easy to install and setup > > works fine with many users accessing the same maildir about 20 > maildirs in a low spec server. Hundreds of folders per maildir with > some of them having up to 3 emails > > With ou

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-02-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:32:01AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/28/07 08:56, Kelly wrote: > > Just a request for opinions here guys. I have read several articles > > about Courier and Dovecot. What is your opinions about which to go > > with. > > What is the purpose/scale of your proposed m

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/07 08:56, Kelly wrote: > Just a request for opinions here guys. I have read several articles > about Courier and Dovecot. What is your opinions about which to go > with. What is the purpose/scale of your proposed mail server? Dovecot is su