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Old 02-18-2004
Maildir or mbox??
Hi,

I was wondering if someone can tell me what the difference is exactly between maildir and mbox.

We have a few solaris 9 systems here and would like to get an imap server running on them. I have setup fetchmail so that it retrives remote pop3 mail into an account, and that mail is then visible in the CDE mailer..

What would be the best way to make this fetched mail available through an imap?

Ive seen several imap servers but they say they use the maildir format only..

Thanks
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Old 02-18-2004
See man page for maildir at qmail.org - it explains the difference between maildir and mbox files.
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Old 02-18-2004
Have now read it and its starting to make sense. Having great fun with qmail and bincimap..

Many thanks :-)
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Old 02-19-2004
Also have a look at procmail.
 
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