Re: imap setup problems [Help, please]

[Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com>]

Mauro Condarelli wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a nice mail server on a static IP.
> It is based on the default exim4.
> It works.
> Now I want to access it via IMAP/web.
> Target is to access my mail repository (on the server) from the 
> internal LAN via IMAP/Thunderbird (Linux or Win) and from remote via Web.
> So I installed uw-imapd and squirrelmail.
> I also changed the default mailbox format to maildirs (I added 
> "dc_localdelivery=maildir_home" to /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf).
> This seems to work.
>
> Now the problem:
> I seem unable to access the maildirs from LAN (Thunderbird says: "no 
> new messages on server").
> I am very confused by uw-imapd documentation. Can someone point me in 
> the right direction, please?
> What should I put in the Thunderbird server configuration? (i tried to 
> add "MAILBOX" to "Personal Namespaces", but it didn't work).
> Problem is I don't know what I should do :(
>
> Thanks in Advance
> Mauro
UW-IMAP does not have Maildir support.  You'll need to switch to 
something that does (Courier-IMAP for example).

A Google search turned up this:

http://www.davideous.com/imap-maildir/

Which may or may not be smart to try -- I'll withhold judgement.

Nate