Re: IMAP Servers

["W. Andrew Loe III" <andrew@andrewloe.com>]

Michael F. Sprague wrote:

> W. Andrew Loe III <andrew@andrewloe.com> wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm currently using Courier-IMAP as my IMAP mail server, but the way it 
> > handles folders is a bit annoying (.FolderName/cur/ .FolderName/new/). 
> > Is this standard IMAP protocol, or do different servers handle this 
> > differently? Which other servers should I check out?
> >    
>
> The format you're describing is maildir which Courier happens to implement.
> Other apps use maildir too.  If you're looking for something that does IMAP,
> you may want to check out Cyrus.  I've used it successfully but it has its
> own mailstore.  It's similar to maildir in that each message is stored in its
> own file, but it doesn't have the 'new' and 'cur' subdirectories, etc.
>
> thanks,
> mikeS
>
>  
I'm sorry, I meant to refer to its implementation of Maildir. Is this 
the standard format? I had a lot of trouble getting this format to work 
well with Apple Mail. I'm pretty sure its Mail's issue as thunderbird 
works perfectly.