[Dovecot] Supporting POP & IMAP with Sendmail

[Villalovos, John L]

dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org wrote:
> I dug thru the archives but didn't see a clear answer to
> this. A client
> has an existing sendmail/pop3 system, and I would like to switch to
> dovecot for imap support. For imap I much prefer the Maildir
> format over
> mbox, however, sendmail natively dumps to mbox (mailspool) and that is
> what pop typically reads. I've read the threads on how to
> make sendmail
> write to Maildir.
> 
> My problem is that I'd like to support both pop/mailspool and
> imap/maildir. 

My suggestion would be to use Dovecot as your POP and IMAP server.

And convert everything to use Maildir unless there is some special
reason you want to keep mbox format for.

Setup procmail to deliver all mail to the maildir folders.  See my
previous message on how to do it.

John



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