At 01:25 PM 12/9/99 -0700, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>> the master.cfg (?) file for postfix says to change the default mailbox
>> delivery
>> rule to 'cyrus' to deliver imap mail. Unfortunately, that requires a
>> binary that
>> doesn't exist (/usr/cyrus/deliver, or some such). Put it another way: by
>> default, postfix seems to deliver POP mail. What needs to be changed to
>> provide IMAP services? The doc files for postfix are not very helpful to
>> that end.
>
>Maybe i'm missing some functionality your looking for, but just modify
>/etc/inetd.conf so it accepts an imap connection and off you go, all the
>tools are already setup for maildrop to /var/spool/mail. What am I
>missing here?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding IMAP, but I was under the impression that the
format
of maildrop in /var/spool/mail was POP mailboxes, and that to use IMAP
mode, you needed something else. Obviously something is not right "out of
the box", since I did all the obvious things, and when I run eudora in POP
mode, I can pull mail right off the server (and see the maildrop change).
If I switch to IMAP mode, eudora tells me "No new mail". I do see logfile
messages that imapd runs when this happens, so that is okay.
