On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 11:18 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Just to be clear what I am saying. > Suppose you have a standard maildir setup on computer X, > with directories ~/Maildir/inbox/[cur,new,tmp]/ , > ~/Maildir/family/[cur,new,tmp]/ , etc. > > Suppose now you start dovecot IMAP on computer X. > Then you will not be able to see the family folder on computer Y, > running as an IMAP client, ie with an IMAP kmail account > pointing to computer X. Those maildirs on X, were they set up through the IMAP server, using a mail client on Y, or through a mail client running on that X computer? Ordinarily, a mail server is something that's remote, and you create things in it through a remote client. Mail folders, and the like, are created as part of the mail server operation, not through direct file system manipulation by the client. If you're running a server and a client on the same box, you really want to configure one to use a different location than the other. You'll find various mail programs not only differ in how they use some storage techniques, they may also add their own custom things into some locations. Yes, you *can* run a server and client on the same box, using the same files. But you'd have to pick software that does it in ways compatible with each other. e.g. I use Evolution and Dovecot on one box. Evolution's own copies of mail are within its own directories. Dovecot is using the usual mail folder location. That's their defaults, and I wouldn't trust a mail application not to stomp all over a mail server files if it accessed them directly. Though there probably are some combinations that can do that. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
