Am Freitag, den 19.11.2004, 11:13 -0500 schrieb Paul Tomblin: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:09:35 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic > <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Cyrus admin commands. Also, you can't use procmail as delivery agent > > anymore, you need to use different MAILER definition in sendmail.mc. > > Mail will not go to /var/spool/mail, but rather to /var/spool/imap. The > > advantage of this is that *all* your folers will be in /var/spool/imap > > (in /var/spool/mail, only your INBOX folder is stored there, everything > > else must be somewhere in your home directory). > > In other words, once you use Cyrus, you can never access your mail any > other way. No thank you. The other imap clients leave your mail in > /var/spool/mail. and so when you're local (or sshed in through the > firewall) you can read it using mutt directly out of the spool. > Just for the understanding: Cyrus as Dovecot are IMAP-Servers. Each client, that picks e-mails from each of this servers uses the appropriate protocol -IMAP (you will find lots of RFC's for this online). A client NEVER knows (and doesn't have to know), where the server stored the e-mail-messages. There are Blackboxes as Cyrus, storing their mails in /var/spool/imap, Dovecot can as i read IMHO support maildir (var/spool/mail->contains a file for each user) or mailbox (having a mail-directory in his users directory on the linux- server and one file per message - if i don't mess). Also mutt can connect directly via it's imap-functionalty. And if you want to access those mails via ssh (you really do this???) you will find all the mails in /var/spool/imap/[users first letter]/user/[username] and they are numbered. Also Cyrus leaves the mails in this directories - this is the advantage of a imap-server, he reads just the headers first and loads the mail, once you clicked it... HTH Roger
