Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:31:03 -0800 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP Message-ID: <20070227023103.GA31729@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <45E38293.6000403@sonicboom.org> References: <45E25D3A.7070308@chrismaness.com> <20070226124421.X89345@chylonia.3miasto.net> <45E2E578.4080201@ibctech.ca> <45E2F933.5040707@u.washington.edu> <45E38293.6000403@sonicboom.org>
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On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Brian wrote: >Garrett Cooper wrote: ... >>I honestly do think that MS Outlook complies as well as other IMAP >>clients, just like MS and their IE browser >_>... >> >>For example, the University of Washington has the following for their >>email client page: >>http://www.washington.edu/computing/email/programs.html#configuring , >>and if you note the location of outlook (the bottom) along with the >>information "we don't support this", then maybe you get a hunch about >>how usable Outlook is with IMAP. >> >>The UW uses uw-imap (whatever the latest version is) because they >>develop that mailserver. As you say the U.W. would have a hard time using anything but uw-imap (where do you thing the uw in uw-imap comes from :-). We've been using courier-imap for about seven years now with thousands of users at our ISP customer's sites. One of our first installations was at a local newspaper group, and I had problems at first until I discovered the build option ``--enable-workarounds-for-imap-client-bugs'' which cured the problems with broken Microsoft software (but I repeat myself). Courier-imap uses qmail-style Maildir mail stores which I much prefer to the monolithic files used by uw-imap as they make life generally easier: + The store each message in its own file where the file name consists of a time stamp, sequence, hostname, and status. + This method of storage eliminates all file locking problems so works well with clusters of servers writing and reading e-mail. + There aren't any issues when deleting messages as one has with the single-file stores where the entire file must be rewritten. + Unlike Cyrus-IMAP, which also uses per-file message stores, the Maildir format doesn't have a semi-proprietary database so works well with other Unix tools (e.g. you want to delete all files over thirty days old from a mail store, a command like this works a treat): find ~user/Maildir -mtime +30 | xargs rm Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved. -- R.A. Heinlein
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