[Gllug] Which IMAP for Debian?

[John Edwards]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:00:45AM +0100, itsbruce at uklinux.net wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:45:05AM +0100, John Edwards wrote:
> > 1) University of Washington (aka UW-IMAP IMAP2000). Very basic, 
> > no shared folders
> 
> It doesn't support mailbox ACLs  but there is basic support for public
> and shared folders.  Create a user account called imapshared, for
> example, and UW Imap will make its mail available in the #shared
> namespace (though you will also need to set appropriate file permissions
> on the mail folders).
> 
> > mail must be in mbox files in /var/spool/mail.
> 
> UW Imap supports the widest range of mail folder formats of any *nix
> IMAP daemon I know, including maildir.
> 
> > Simple install but no change in configuration is possible without 
> > editing the source code and recompiling. 
> 
> It is possible to change a range of settings at runtime, from mail spool
> location to default folder type, though this is not officially
> documented.  Edit /etc/c-client.cf to set global config changes or
> ~/.c-client.cf for per-user changes.
> 
> I can recommend the O'Reilly IMAP book, which gives a good overview and
> comparison of UW, Courier and Cyrus IMAP.

My thanks to Xander and Bruce. It looks like UW-IMAP has changed quite 
a bit since I last used it a couple of years ago. 

The configuration files look to be a recent addition the CONFIG file 
referenced by the website still talks about editing the C source code. 
imaprc.txt gives the details of the new configuration options along 
with big warning sign.


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