Sorry for not following up faster on this.
> Ok, so what is it configured for?
mbox format.
INBOX = /var/mail/
mailboxes in $HOME
(btw this last one can be a cause of slowdowns too. If you have a lot of
files in your home directory, it will try and open each one to see if it
is a mailbox. Ther
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 12:23:10PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
| On 28 Apr 2002, Brian Nelson wrote:
|
| > > Please elaborate on the cons of uw-imapd.
| >
| > It's slow,
|
| For certain values of slow. This is more to do with mbox vs maildir
| format than the server itself. In maildir, every
On 28 Apr 2002, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > Please elaborate on the cons of uw-imapd.
>
> It's slow,
For certain values of slow. This is more to do with mbox vs maildir
format than the server itself. In maildir, every message is in a seprate
file, whereas in mbox they are all in one honking great b
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 04:21:43PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> |
> | > I just install courier-imap on my system to let my dad receive mail on
> | > it. The documentation is exceedingly sparse. I couldn't even find
> | > an
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 04:21:43PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
| dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > I just install courier-imap on my system to let my dad receive mail on
| > it. The documentation is exceedingly sparse. I couldn't even find
| > any mention of where it expects the folders to b
begin Jamin W. Collins quotation:
>
> And for those of you that may claim Linux is too difficult to understand
> for most users. My mother made the switch a while back. She's in her
> 50's and happily running Debian.
My experience is the same.
And, if they're using Linux, you don't have to ha
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 10:23:51 -0400
"Shawn McMahon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin Patrick Kirk quotation:
> > > Lookout/Lookout Express (never!)
> > Not very Pc to ask but why not? Its probably the one that your Dad
> > will find easiest and that means a lot.
>
> Why not remove the lock
begin Patrick Kirk quotation:
> > Lookout/Lookout Express (never!)
> Not very Pc to ask but why not? Its probably the one that your Dad
> will find easiest and that means a lot.
Why not remove the lock from his front door? He'll find that easiest...
Intentionally getting a family member hoo
On 27 Apr 2002, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Yeah, Debian-specific documentation for courier is non-existent. I
> despise when developers don't include a README that explains the default
> Debian configuration for a package.
>
Did you file a bug? Or better yet a patch?
> That said, there is a courier
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 17:22:46 -0500, dman wrote:
snip
>I also need recommendations for a win32 mail client that can handle
>IMAP and preferrably gpg/pgp. I've heard good reports in the past
>about Pegasus, but how is it for gpg?
snip
Forte Agent is very nice in Win32. There is no gpg or pgp. It
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just install courier-imap on my system to let my dad receive mail on
> it. The documentation is exceedingly sparse. I couldn't even find
> any mention of where it expects the folders to be. I managed to work
> out that I need a symlink from ~/Maildir to /var
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:22:46PM -0500, dman wrote:
>
>I'm familiar with :
> Lookout/Lookout Express (never!)
Not very Pc to ask but why not? Its probably the one that your Dad
will find easiest and that means a lot.
> Netscape Messenger (works but not the greatest, slow and bloated)
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.28.0022 +0200]:
> I just install courier-imap on my system to let my dad receive mail on
> it. The documentation is exceedingly sparse. I couldn't even find
> any mention of where it expects the folders to be. I managed to work
> out that I need a sy
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