Re: [SLE] Re: IMAP server - upgrading to SuSE 9.2

From: James Knott (james.knott_at_rogers.com)
Date: 01/24/05

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    Sandy Drobic wrote:
    > Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
    >
    >>> Forgot to mention. I'm running Washington IMAP and use fetchmail, to
    >>> get the mail from my ISP.
    >>> Can fetchmail be used with Courier or Cyrus IMAP?
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >> Fetchmail can be used with Courier IMAP. Don't know about Cyrus.
    >
    >
    > The Imap service doesn't have anything to do with fetchmail. It's
    > postfix that deals with fetchmail.
    > Fetchmail "fetches" your mails from the various pop servers and dumps
    > them in the mail queue for postfix to pick them up.
    > Postfix delivers these mails to the local mailboxes or relays them to
    > the destination if postfix is configured that way. Postfix uses the
    > standard transport to deliver the mails, usually that transport is
    > configured to pass the mails to the amavisd for spam and virus checking
    > or directly to the imap service.

    I'm using fetchmail to download incoming mail. It then places the
    messages in the mbox file. I don't believe Courier or Cyrus IMAP
    servers work with mbox.

    tnx 

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