[Dovecot] [OT] Webmail Recommendation

[Chris Wakelin]

Mike Brudenell wrote:
> Whatever you do, DON'T move to Maildir if you are using the Prayer 
> webmail software!
> 
> We have used Prayer here for many years with the UW IMAP server backend 
> and first Berkeley, then later MBX, format mail folders.
> 
> When we migrated new users to Dovecoe with Maildir folders we discovered 
> that Prayer does NOT like Maildir folders.  The reason is that Maildir 
> folders are "dual-purpose": each can contain any mix of messages and 
> sub-folders.  However Prayer is intrinsically designed to ONLY work with 
> folders that can contain messages or subfolders, but NOT both.  The 
> result is that Prayer can show you the list of folders to navigate 
> around, but will not list any messages within any folder.
> 

I had to hack Prayer to cope with users we'd migrated to 
<cough>Exchange</cough> that were being proxied through Dovecot so that 
they didn't need to change their mail client settings. (Exchange was 
marking folders as "HASNOCHILDREN" rather than "HASNOINFERIORS" and 
would put a trailing "/" on a non-selectable directory.)

I'm not sure whether it would be Dovecot or Prayer I'd modify to deal 
with Maildirs!

Chris

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