Re: Automating IMAP email maintenance
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 07:28:49AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote:
> Cyrus doesn't use maildir. It uses something that kinda looks like
> maildir. Regular users can't even read the files in the Cyrus mail
> spool.
This is precisely the reason why I was asking the question in the first
place. I was hoping for some cyrus utility. Apparently, there is none.
Does anybody know what the mail format for Cyrus is called?
>
> Worse, running a non-cyrus-aware program on a Cyrus mail spool is a Very
> Bad Idea unless you understand Cyrus administration well enough to know
> how to fix the bullet hole in your foot.
In retrospect, it may have been a bad idea for me to go with Cyrus
instead of Courier. It's just that I don't understand the restrictions
on Courier's setup - it didn't sound too "Free Software" friendly.
-Andy
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