Re: [ILUG] IMAP server...

From: Colin Whittaker (grimnar at domain redbrick.dcu.ie)
Date: Wed 16 Feb 2000 - 15:19:06 GMT


John P. Looney stated the following on Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:58:08PM +0000 :
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:46:20PM -0000, Ricardo Letosa mentioned:
> IMAP rocks. If you are exporting mail directories over NFS, and someone
> wants to read mail 1083 in their mailbox, the whole mailbox is sent over
> the network. If a mail is deleted/moved to another mailbox, the changed
> mailboxes have to be sent over the network. IMAP gets rid of all this
> messing around.

Using MailDir style mailboxes on the nfs server gets you the same
features.

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