On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Megha Agarval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Megha Agarval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Megha Agarval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >>>> you need to set up some mailets to deliver incoming mail into IMAP >>>> >>>> are you using a customized set of mailets or just the defaults shipped >>>> with James? >>>> >>> I am using the default set of mailets. >>> >>>> also, how do you plan to configure your user account and map them to >>>> IMAP? >>> >>> I use Thunderbird to create user accounts and map them to imap on >>> required >>> ports >> >> AIUI you want to run an SMTP server. how do you plan to manage your >> users for the domain you plan to serve? >> > > > Here is a short description of the set-up I am using: > > I run James in a test environment and not in a production environment. I > start the SMTP, POP3 and IMAP services. There is no external user database > and I use the telnet service to create users. For these users, I create > accounts in thunderbird and then use those accounts to send and receive > mails.
ok > I am using the smoke setup of james with all the default configurations. As > of now I can send mails and retrieve them through POP3 accounts. But, if I > send mails and try to retrieve the same through IMAP account it does not > show any mail in the mailbox. good - this the default setup you usually don't want to share POP3 and IMAP mailboxes for the same user. POP3 is a download protocol, and messages are usually deleted once they have been downloaded. do you want to be able to have incoming mail for each user you've setup forked to POP3 and IMAP INBOXes? - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
