From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 22 17:16:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E24816A400 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:16:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kend@amigo.net) Received: from mx.amigo.net (mx.amigo.net [209.94.64.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B0213C465 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:16:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kend@amigo.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.amigo.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7556BF50D; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:51:01 -0600 (MDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amigo.net Received: from mx.amigo.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail2.amigo.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0VzAIXzQlBlC; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:51:01 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.1.27] (billing.amigo.net [209.94.67.250]) by mail2.amigo.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8127EBF509; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:51:01 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:51:03 -0600 From: Kenny Dail To: David Banning In-Reply-To: <20070322064044.GA7157@skytracker.ca> References: <20070322064044.GA7157@skytracker.ca> Message-Id: <20070322104436.D2BB.KEND@amigo.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.28.01 [en] Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help on picking an IMAP server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:16:40 -0000 > I have been using imap-uw for some time but now I would like to > have an imap server that can have subfolders. Out with imap-uw.. > > I tried dovecot but I was unable to get it to create subfolders, > although it seems some say you can, may people are having problems > doing so, and I didn't like the fact that it changes the format of > the folders from the mbox standard. How long ago did you try Dovecot? There have been a lot of fixes regarding mbox so far this year. Check the Dovecot list for details. > any suggestions? Is mbox necessary? I would bet you'd be happier with a maildir backend. There are plenty of tools for converting. > -- Kenny Dail