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From: Varun (no email)
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 09:54:54 EDT
Michael J Wise wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Varun wrote:
>
>> Pollywog wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/02/2005 03:39 pm, Varun wrote:
>>>
>>>> What does then courier-imap do then ?
>>>
>>> Courier-imap allows you to read your mail (in your Maildir).
>>> Mail will read by a email client which will retrieve it from the
>>> Maildir.
>>
>> So basically Courier-imap comes into picture between Maildir and
>> email client.
>
>
> Courier IMAP is the piece of software that handles the requests from
> the Email client, such as Eudora or Outlook, and tells them what is in
> the Maildir, and delivers the messages up to them in a format they can
> use so that they can display it nice and pretty to the user.
>
> Otherwise, people would have to read their email by starting up an SSH
> session and doing the following:
>
> cd Maildir
> cd new
> ls -l
> less ...
>
> And most people are not interested in doing that.
> Although, from time to time, I find it neat, myself....
>
> Aloha mai Nai`a!
Hmm...
That is interesting.
I shall give it try.
Thanks Michael for teaching a few tips. I like that.
Varun
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