From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 24 5:40:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com (infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com [196.25.137.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE67537B416 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 05:40:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12223 invoked by uid 0); 24 Dec 2001 13:40:41 -0000 Received: from gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com (196.25.137.65) by infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com with SMTP; 24 Dec 2001 13:40:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 71013 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Dec 2001 13:40:54 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:40:54 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Il%j Sipicin , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: numerous IMAP questions... Message-ID: <20011224154053.A70749@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20011223144012.T713-100000@sol.chel.skbkontur.ru> <20011224161257.A57370@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011224161257.A57370@grimoire.chen.org.nz>; from jonc@chen.org.nz on Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:12:57PM +1300 Organization: iTouch Labs X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message