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Date:      Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:40:54 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Cc:        Il%j Sipicin <ilia@chel.skbkontur.ru>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: numerous IMAP questions...
Message-ID:  <20011224154053.A70749@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011224161257.A57370@grimoire.chen.org.nz>; from jonc@chen.org.nz on Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:12:57PM %2B1300
References:  <20011223144012.T713-100000@sol.chel.skbkontur.ru> <20011224161257.A57370@grimoire.chen.org.nz>

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On Mon 2001-12-24 (16:12), Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 02:43:52PM +0500, Il%j Sipicin wrote:
> > Well,
> > 
> > 1) is there an alternative for imap-uw ?
> 
> There's Courier IMAP, but the folders it creates are MH mailboxes (ie
> files & directories) instead of UNIX-mailfolders (ie one file containing
> several emails).

No, they're Maildirs.  And there're plenty good reasons why they're
better than mailboxes.  (and a few good reasons why they're worse too)

Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org

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