[tech] Re: imap

[Michael Deegan]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:58:58AM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, James Andrewartha wrote:
> > It's fine. However, it does tend to index your entire home directory when
> > you issue the LIST command. To avoid this, create a .imaprc according to
> > /usr/share/doc/libc-client2003-debian/imaprc.txt.gz, specifically with the
> > option 'set mail-subdirectory'.
> 
> Oh, and please try this out on mussel, so you can kill your imapd
> processes (they hang around, and if you leave them on mooneye, mail stops
> being delivered).

Note that if you use imap-ssl (port 993) there is no problem, but if you use
plain imap (or TLS, via port 143) you will have problems. fetchmail will
talk to port 993, everything else (to my knowledge) uses port 143.

Also, mermaid doesn't require the .imaprc workaround as it appears to have a
really old imapd installed. I recommend careful examination of the output of
'apt-show-versions -u' on all the debian boxen, as there are a large number
of packages from testing and unstable that have newer versions available,
including libc-client (though this won't catch packages that have
disappeared from the archive altogether, such as imap on mermaid).

HTH,

-MD

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