Re: Moving mail to Chek

On Jul 10, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > The IMAP clients that integrate with qmail that I have seen have all been > > > really clunky and not very well integrated. > > > > You mean server, right? > > Yeah, sorry. Typo. > > > If you use mailbox format (not maildir), then there should be no > > problem using UW imapd. If you want to use maildir, there really > > isn't a good solution. There are patches to UW imap to add support, > > but one annoyance of any IMAP server that handles Maildir folders is > > that the IMAP unique-id scheme is restricted to 32-bit integers, > > which doesn't map well to the Maildir unique filename scheme. (Unlike > > POP3's UIDL, which doesn't have such a stupid limitation.) > > I think Cyrus works around that actually. But I'd have to check. I am no > big fan of the UW imapd, by the way. Well, Cyrus uses its own message store so it dodges the issue entirely, if I remember correctly. I'm no big fan of UW imapd either. I'm even less of a fan of the IMAP standard. The idea is great, the implementations are dodgy, and the standard is just poorly written. Jim