On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:43:12AM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> The adventures with IMAP continue.
> 
> I just installed the U of W imapd.  Apparently there are no configuration
> options for this server.  My understanding is that it uses whatever mailbox
> setup is currently being used by Linux.  So...  I set up a .qmail file in a
> users ("charlie") home directory containing the line "/home/charlie/mbox" and
> sent a half dozen messages to that user.  I viewed his mbox file with less just
> to confirm it did indeed contain the messages.  Then I set up an account for
> charlie in Outlook 98 and attempted to view his messages.  Outlook connected
> just fine, but didn't indicate that there was any mail to be read in his folder!
> 
> Am I missing something?

Yes. Use Maildir delivery, and David Harris fine patch-FIXES for the
qmail-imap-patches. Everything is nicely wrapped up here:

http://www.davideous.com/imap-maildir/

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magnus
        -- MOST useless 1998 * http://x42.com/

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