Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

[Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>> Do you mean that you have all of your mailboxes synced with
> >>> one another? I'd love to be able to do that with Mutt and
> >>> Icedove if possible. Any chance you have a URL to a
> >>> walkthrough/HowTo on how to do something like that?
> >> No, no, no.
> >>
> >> ONE mail folder tree shared by *all* MUAs.  That is the beauty
> >> of the IMAP protocol.
> >>
> >> And mail delivered by a cron job.
> >>
> >>
> > That's pretty cool. I wish I had the patience to do something
> > like that, but I really don't. Maybe when I get unlazy I'll get
> > an IMAP going between Mutt and Icedove, if that's even possible.
>
> "an IMAP going between Mutt and Icedove"?
>
> Stop thinking that IMAP synchronizes mail folders!!!!!
Isn't that basically what it does? It lets you manipulate the mail on
the server without actually /transferring/ them. I've never looked into
IMAP before though, I think I'm going to try to work with it soon
though; Sounds interesting (Especially since soon I'll be getting a
mobile client with e-mailing abilities).
>
> > Do you have any links to some of the documentation you used? I
> > can't find good documentation on doing something like this
> > anywhere online.
>
> http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/RH90-Postfix-Courier-Maildrop-IMAP/
>
> There are Debian packages for all this stuff, so it's really easy.
Thanks for the link, very helpful.