At 08:08 PM 12/9/99 -0800, you wrote:
>On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>-I want to run IMAP on my new system, since I need to access email from at
>-least
>-two remote machines. I nuked sendmail and installed the postfix RPM from
>-the 6.1
>-cdrom. Made a couple of minor config changes and it delivers POP mail
>-fine. I then located and installed the IMAP RPM. Here's the rub: I can't
>-find anything in the docs for postfix that describe how to actually deliver
>-IMAP mail. The closest I can find seems to explicitly require the cyrus
>-IMAP software (which doesn't come with mandrake 6.1). Am I missing
>-something here?
>
>Postfix does not deliver IMAP mail, it just delivers mail. Once
>the mail has been put into a mailbox, postfix has nothing more to do.
>
>IMAP allows a mail client to access this mail from another machine.
>
>I use fetchmail to grab POP3 mail from my employer's Exchange
>server to my workstation. Fetchmail hands this mail to sendmail which
>delivers it to my system inbox. From there, IMAP allows me to access
>the inbox (and other mail folders) from home.
well i must be doing something wrong then, because with no further changes,
i can access my mail using POP but not using IMAP. i thought IMAP
supported actual folders, not just messages concatenated together?
