[imp] qmail imp and courier imap

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting craig needs <cneeds@verticaltech.com.au>:

> I have had qmail and IMP working successfully for a while. I have been using
> IMP with pop and the users have been receiving and sending their mail fine.
> The problem came when the users wanted folders. So I installed Courier IMAP
> and it works ok in that I can send emails and create folders. The folders are
> created as ie. INBOX.test in the /Maildir alongside the new, cur and tmp 
> directories. The problem I have is that when trying to access my emails I use
> the pulldown dialog box in IMP in the left hand corner and select INBOX but
> there is no mail in it. The emails are accessable via the pulldown and are 
> shown as new/10004407140.2764.mail.domain.com. When I select the email I can
> view and delete it. I have looked through the archives and I have a hint that
> I should have a way to tell IMAP that the INBOX is the /Maildir/new 
> directory. I also find it interesting that there isn't any INBOX in the 
> /Maildir so I tried creating a ln -s for INBOX which pointed to /Maildir/new
> but that didn't help. I feel I am missing something obvious here so flame away

You probably need to tweak Courier's configuration - test with another IMAP
client to make sure.

-chuck

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