[wellylug] Imap server config

[Nigel Walters]

Hi Tony,

Ha Ha !

On the imap problem I am not worried about configuring the client end. I
just want to understand consequences of changing the default. I suppose
I am just impressed that I have to compile the imap server just to
change a default root directory.


BTW I also now in favour of using the $HOME/maildir as a root directory.
I want to get rid of the problem of irrelevant files being available to
subscribe to and I want to switch to using the maildir format for my
mail folders.

regards
Nigel


On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 05:12, Tony Booth wrote:
> Tony baits Nigel and...
> 
> Nigel bites!
> 
> But seriously, thanks for that info.
> 
> On your imap problem, I was running imap mail at one point, before I
> changed jobs.  From memory, what I did was configure Moz/Mutt/Outlook
> Express to use ~/INBOX on the imapd host as the root folder (OE at least
> has an option to display only subscribed folders).  Your Deb system
> should be dumping mail in ~/INBOX (it doesn't just go into the $HOME
> folder I don't think?).  Then put any sub-folders in ~/INBOX.  There's
> probably no reason you couldn't use /var/mail/~ as the root, except
> perhaps permissions.
> 
> Your mail is of course still passing through /var/mail/~ too, so
> appropriate configuration of exim can forward the mail to any folder you
> like.  Good luck getting to grips with the manual though -- I set it up
> to resolve domains (for spam checking) and it took about a week to find
> the right options.
> 
> In short, it might be easiest to configure the client, and not the
> server.
> 
> By the way, I found Mutt pretty crap for IMAP, especially with bulk
> messages in a single folder.  Moz Mail works nicely after the initial
> mucking about with configuration -- you can even (and, for outside use,
> should) use secure IMAP.  Or to avoid configuring IMAP at the client end
> altogether, consider imp/horde webmail (www.horde.org/imp/), which sits
> on the imapd server and works with IMAP. I believe it is what paradise
> uses (a modified version).
> 
> Cheers
> Tony
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel Walters [mailto:nigel.walters at ihug.co.nz] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2003 7:32 p.m.
> To: wellylug
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Recording multi-session CDs
> 
> 
> Tony,
> 
> Amanda does support backup to CD's at least with this add-in.
> 
> 
> > http://www.tivano.de/software/amanda/index.shtml
> 
> 
> regards
> Nigel
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 04:34, Tony Booth wrote:
> > To the gentleman who was talking about automating multi-session 
> > backups at last night's meeting (Rex?):
> > 
> > You might find the following sites useful: 
> > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-cdburn.html
> > (introductory tutorial) 
> > http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/pr
> > iv
> > ate/man/README/README.multi (more complex)
> > 
> > To my knowledge, Amanda does not support CDs (only tapes), but then I 
> > am using Debian 3.0, which is comparatively ancient.
> > 
> > For failover support for your servers, this could be a useful starting
> > point:
> > http://www.linux-ha.org/
> > 
> > I think databases will be the sticking point here, but I know 
> > PostgreSQL has patches for a master-slave type arrangement, which 
> > could help.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Tony
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mangee [mailto:mangee at paradise.net.nz]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2003 9:11 a.m.
> > To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
> > Subject: [wellylug] T-Shirts
> > 
> > 
> > $20/colour/film
> > $20 per colour to print screens
> > $1/shirt/colour
> > 
> > So for 4 colours $80 for film, $80 per colour and $4 per shirt..
> > 
> > Wasn't able to make the LUG meeting as it clashes with a Web Media 
> > meeting I run http://welmac.org.nz/meetings.htm hope it was good.
> > --
> > Mangee
> > See the playback at http://webcam.mangee.net.nz/overview.html
> > 
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> Nigel Walters <nigel.walters at ihug.co.nz>
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