Re: IMAP on php.net

Umm.... theres no problem running qmail and storing mbox format mailboxes. (is this what you're asking??) This gives two positive things #1. lets us use qmail..qmail is our friend.. #2. give us the standard mbox formatted mailboxes, meaning we can plug in whatever imapd we want (since they almost all can read mbox mailboxes) (also gives the ability to access it with a pop client/server. Also, popping in a web frontend it easy too, once you have an imap server. why do people here have to standardize on one way to read mail? IMHO, lets setu pa pop, imap, and web mail interface. i guess i'm a little confused as to what the problem is.. we can mix and match MTA's, MUA's and mail servers almost interchangably. Chek's imapd can work fine with mbox mailboxes. i'm going to go read this thread again and see if i can figure out exactly where the confusion and conflicts are, cause i'm still a little confused... Mark > > There's no reason they couldn't run on the same machine. Install > > Cyrus IMAPD as user 'cyrus' with a .qmail-default that is > > "|/path/to/cyrus/deliver $EXT". If someone with an account on the > > php.net wants to forward their mail into the IMAP system, they just > > have to set their .qmail-default file to "&cyrus-username". You could > > even do a little bit more magic in user cyrus's .qmail-default to allow > > messages to be forwarded into specific mailboxes. > > True, that would probably work. I wonder if Mark's hacked imapd could run > that way as well. Mark? > > -Rasmus >