[imp] Imap stores messages in mbox file

[Joseph Brennan]

>> Everything works nice except that some people, after reading their
>> mails through IMP cannot retrieve messages with their pop client.
>> Messages read by IMP are transferred in file called mbox under their
>> home directory.
>> If anyone have an idea?

Assuming U Wash imap server, the best solution is to use the ipop
POP server that is packaged with it.  ipop uses mbox too.

The alternative is to recompile U Wash imapd without the mbox driver,
so it uses spool as Inbox.  This will have an effect on spool disk
usage and I/O, and will strand mail in existing mbox files, so work
out a plan before just doing it.

This isn't really an IMP issue, but IMP leads POP users to use IMAP
for the first time, so they see it as a problem caused by IMP.

Joseph Brennan                           postmaster@columbia.edu
Academic Technologies Group, Academic Information Systems (AcIS)