Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> wrote: > Geez, Bill, you HAVE been out of it for a little while, haven't you? :-) > > >Dovecot is a server and Maildir is mail storage format. What are you > >using as a UI? > > Paul has mentioned this before, but to fill you in ... I forget which > MUA he uses (I want to say Thunderbird, maybe?) but the key point here > is Dovecot stores it's messages in Maildir folders. So he was interested > in tools that could work directly on Maildir folders. This is a _BIT_ > challenging.
Thanks for that. My mail to [email protected] bounced. > As a larger note ... I always thought the use of Maildir as a message > folder format was a bit weird. I have no objections if people want to > add that support for Maildir folders, but there are some challenges, and > I think the number of people who would find that useful is small compared > to the number of people who would find IMAP useful, so it wasn't something > I was going to work on (we do, today, have support in inc(1) for Maildir). > > >Yeah, with all of the security that NASA is adding, my days of fetchmail > >and procmail are numbered at work, and with it, MH and MH-E, unless I > >can find a way to bridge the gap between the NASA Linux email UI > >(Evolution?) and the MH mail store. > > I can't speak for exactly what you guys are doing, but I believe we > support all of the relevant security protocols with regards to POP > and SMTP. So if you guys have a POP server and a SMTP server you point > Evolution to, I don't think there's a reason you couldn't use nmh with it. The new system is Office 365 and all employees are *required* to use Lookout on their Windows and Mac systems as an MUA using a badge for authentication. Given that, I'm pessimistic there is an open way to access NASA email. Linux users currently have a waiver to continue using IMAP, but that will go away once NASA IT finds a solution. It is likely to be a dictated MUA (as with the Mac and Windows) rather than a general mechanism. > --Ken -- Bill Wohler <[email protected]> aka <[email protected]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/, GnuPG ID:610BD9AD
