[imp] Cyrus and IMP IMAP folders

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Dan Ellis <dle9526@silver.sdsmt.edu>:

> Hello, I am considering IMP for our web to imap server.  Using the demo, I
> was unable to read my nested cyris IMAP folders.  Has anyone had any
> experience with this?  I am sure that there is a work around to the cyrus
> imap server, but would like to know that someone has run across (and
> soved) this.

As several people have said, many people use IMP successfully with cyrus. What
did you enter in the Folder Prefix: field on the demo? For cyrus, you should
leave it blank.

> Cyrus uses a different folder method than normal imap servers since it
> fdoes not allow local users.

Actually, "normal" is a toss-up; I can think of about as many IMAP servers that
use a cyrus-like folder structure as those that don't (and some of them go by
local users).

-chuck

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Subject: Re: [imp] help on imp program

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:33:22 -0400 Dan Brown <danb35@earthlink.net> wrote:

> > Where can I tell the qmail DB to check out the users and their passwords,
> > where can I capture the new users, so they can access thru imp.
> This has nothing to do with IMP.  You need an IMAP mail server (does
> qmail contain one?), and the IMAP server needs to authenticate users
> however you want it to.

i'd recommend courier-imap server from http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/
one can authenticate traditional way, with mysql database or ldap.
this imap server is dedicated for qmail and maildirs (it won't work with
mailboxes). it's fast. it's secure. it's what should be used on a qmail box.

m.m.
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