[pmmail-list] PMMail and The Bat!

[Manfred Usselmann]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:33:57 -0800
Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> wrote:

> You're being argumentative.  For 25 years, every Unix system stored 
> e-mail as one file per user, with messages separated by "From xxx@yyy"
> lines.  

The traditional mailbox files.

> That's what POP and IMAP servers expect.

Well, not necessarily. Examples for Unix programs using the Maildir
directory based mail storage with individual files per mail are Qmail,
Exim, Postfix, Courier, Maildrop...

I use fetchmail to retrieve my mail from a POP server, which forwards
the mail to Maildrop. Maildrop sorts the mails into different folders as
single files per mail. These folders in maildir format are used by my
Courier IMAP server.

S.a. http://www.inter7.com/courierimap.html


Manfred



________________________________________________________________________
 Manfred Usselmann                            usselmann.m@icg-online.de
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