Re: [gentoo-server] courier-imapd en maildir

[Jeremy Kitchen]

On Wednesday 23 June 2004 10:22 am, Dan Noe wrote:
> > > Even for local users, if you are running courier-imap, it's nice to
> > > have local accounts connect to the IMAP server rather than the .maildir
> > > or mailbox files, because this greatly reduces the probability of
> > > locking related hastles.
> > >
> > > I used to use mutt directly on a server that had courier-imap running,
> > > and when Mozilla Thunderbird on my other workstation machine recieved
> > > mail it reorganized based on filters, causing mutt to freak out that
> > > the mailbox was being modified externally.  Using mutt in imap mode
> > > made it much more tolerant.
> >
> > doesn't this just duplicate all of your emails though?  doesn't mutt
> > download the messages and store them locally somewhere?  I'm prety sure
> > kmail and evolution and any other imap client do :)
>
> POP stores messages locally.  IMAP has the capability to store all messages
> on the server, and most clients do this.  This is one of the biggest
> advantages of IMAP.

yes, I know.. I use imap for all of my email.  most imap clients, however, 
keep a cache of the emails/headers they have downloaded from the server.  I 
would not be surprised if mutt also did this.

> Myself, I use mutt locally on my server and I also use Evolution at work
> and occaisionally MozillaThunderbird at home when I need to muck around
> with lots of attachments.  I store all my mail, send and received, in a
> single, searchable mailbox.

yes, I as well.  Being able to be anywhere and access my entire mailbox is 
extremely handy :)

-Jeremy

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