Thanks for the fine comments. You are the second to recommend courier-imap, and I'll probably go that route.
Re the phone behavior, I wonder if the cause of yours is the same as mine: I just discovered that although my phone can talk to IMAP servers, it really only implements POP-like functions, so it does not delete messages on the server, nor does it understand subdirectories. You may check with your phone's email client's provider, perhaps you too have these limitations.
Michael
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Stroller wrote:
On May 12, 2005, at 8:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I already have Postfix running and I happily read email on my server, but I'd like to read my email on my IMAP/SSL cellphone client. I've seen Courier, UW, and Cyrus, and perhaps there are others. Any recommendations, for or against?
I really like Courier-IMAP, which is Courier without maildrop or the webmail. I installed maildrop separately, but use Squirrelmail for the latter. As a client I mostly use Apple's Mail.app, but have also used Entourage, kMail and Outlook Express happily.
I've been accessing my Courier-IMAP mailboxes from the Windows Mobile client on my new phone sporadically for the past two or three weeks. It seems to work well, with the proviso that the client doesn't seem delete to messages from the server when I delete them on the phone's inbox, and that I can't view sub-folders. I suppose it's possible this is because I have something configured wrong, or because I've simply never waited for the 10,000 messages in my typical sub-folder to synchronise, but it doesn't matter to me, because I simply want to be able to access an up-to-date inbox on my IMAP server. I can move messages from my inbox to sub-folders, and this works perfectly, so I suppose you could delete items from your inbox by moving them to Trash.
Currently I'm the only user, but I host about a dozen friend's websites, and perhaps someday they too would like email, so I'd like to be able to grow into that, but I don't feel I need a database to support a huge number of clients. I support these virtual domains directly from Postfix.
I only have two users of my courier-imap server, and they just have a system user each.
Stroller.
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