Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

[mockingbird@ihug.co.nz (Chris Bannister)]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:43:37AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> IMAP is designed for what you what you want to do.  Run an imapd on
> your box (courier-imap is popular and easy) and tell you MUA to use
> the IMAP protocol instead of mbox.

Hi Ron,

If you use fetchmail to get your mail from your ISP, is it still easy?
At the moment I use fetchmail and maildrop. Once courier-imap is
installed, do I just change my .mailfilter from say:

 ###############################################
 #    Filter debian-user list messages         #
 ###############################################
 if (/^X-Loop: debian-user@lists\.debian\.org$/)
 {
   to "$HOME/Mail/IN-debian-user/"
 }

to --

  ###############################################
  #    Filter debian-user list messages         #
  ###############################################
  if (/^X-Loop: debian-user@lists\.debian\.org$/)
  {
    to "$HOME/Maildir/IN-debian-user/"
  }

(Assuming courier-imap defaults to $HOME/Maildir/)

To copy an existing $HOME/Mail/ structure
=========================================
Can I just "cp Mail Maildir" then when I am happy just "rm -r Mail"

What documentation do you recommend reading?

Using the MUA to access the "$HOME/Maildir/" is another 'kettle of fish'

For mutt: 
Mutt and IMAP (maintained by Brendan Cully)
http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/

-- 
Chris.
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