Re: IMAP

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 14 Jul, Patrick Kirk wrote about "IMAP"
> Hi all,
> 
> Can exim work as an IMAP server?  Or have I completely misunderstood what IMAP is?  Searching for imap in man exim shows nothing.
> 

No.  IMAP is a protocol for accessing mail folders on a remote machine.
Exim is just a Mail Transfer Agent(MTA) that delivers the mail to the
folders.  You need a IMAP server program like the one in the Debian imap
package to access those folders from a remote machine.  For local
reading you don't need an IMAP server, although you could access via
IMAP if you really wanted to.

-- 
Brian 
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