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



On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:01:56PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> 
> 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/)
> 
That looks right.  I have used fetchmail on machines running IMAP and
never had a problem with fetchmail delivering straight into my Maildir.

Personally, I don't like clutter in my $HOME, so I changed the courier
config to use ~/.Maildir instead of ~/Maildir.

> To copy an existing $HOME/Mail/ structure
> =========================================
> Can I just "cp Mail Maildir" then when I am happy just "rm -r Mail"
> 
Is ~/Mail already in Maildir format?  If not, I'd say the best bet is to
setup courier-imap and then use something like procmail to bounce every
message in ~/Mail back to yourself.

> 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/
> 
I've never had a problem with mutt and IMAP (using it now).  I just set
the default folder as imaps://user@host/INBOX and it works fine.  I
forget the exact settings, but they are well documented.  If you need
them, I can post mine out of my own config.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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