7 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] Question about ma...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Carl Baldwin | Sep 9, 2002 8:56 pm | |
| Peter C. Norton | Sep 9, 2002 9:29 pm | |
| Andy Ciordia | Sep 10, 2002 5:46 am | |
| Luc Brouard | Sep 10, 2002 7:24 am | |
| Carl Baldwin | Sep 10, 2002 10:32 am | |
| Peter C. Norton | Sep 10, 2002 12:29 pm | |
| Binand Raj S. | Sep 11, 2002 7:22 am |
| Subject: | Re: [courier-users] Question about mail folder hierarchy. | |
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| From: | Peter C. Norton (spac...@lenin.nu) | |
| Date: | Sep 10, 2002 12:29:41 pm | |
| List: | net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users | |
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:32:14AM -0600, Carl Baldwin wrote:
Well, I have received plenty of answers about how to use mutt with imap. This works somewhat. Here are some problems with using mutt with imap that I've encountered.
- It doesn't work with the mutt 'tunnel' variable. imapd should run by calling it from the command line and read/writing from its stdout/stdin. The tunnel variable specifies a command to be executed to run an imapd in this way on a remote (or even local) machine. mutt cannot login when using this method.
You don't need the mutt tunnel. Here's an excerpt from my .muttrc.
# Can be imap instead of imaps if you want. set spoolfile="imaps://my_mail.srvr/INBOX"
set from="you@your_dom.ain" set envelope_from="yes" set imap_user="your_imap_userid" set record="imaps://my_mail.srvr/INBOX.sent_mail" set mbox="imaps://my_mail.srvr/INBOX.read_mail" set postponed="https://my_mail.srvr/INBOX.drafts" set signature="~/.signature" set folder="imaps://my_mail.srvr/INBOX.saved/"
- I really want to run mutt on my maildir directories without going through imap. mutt is very fast in handling maildir directories especially doing regular expression searches and while imap is great for remote access to a mailbox I'm sorry to say that when I'm on a machine where the mailboxes are local imap slows this down considerably.
Mutts pretty fast at handling imap, too. However I can see what you mean about it being slower at actually having to do regexp searches through message contents.
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PS I guess at this point I'm not really looking for a short term solution. I'm looking for someone who knows something about the subject who might be able to tell me why things were done the way they were.
Mostly because that's what happened. Djb came up with maildirs, which just started out as a mail storage format and different folks found different ways of extending it. Oh, well. If you wrote an RFC with interoperability and talked the the various implementors and they liked it, you could, perhaps, see some changes over the next year or two. Personally I'm pretty happy with using an IMAP server as my mail store and letting it worry about these things.
-Peter
-- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one.