LOL, ok, well that was a total non-issue. I connected by using "thufir@localhost" and it seems to download all the messages.
Well, thanks for the help. Seems silly now.
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:12 AM, Alex Crow <acrow@integrafin.co.uk> wrote:
On 10/12/12 11:58, Thufir wrote:
Well, I'm just confused now because I see, which I should've noticed first, that IMAP is a protocol while Maildir is a Mailbox (type).
So, I could very well be using Mailbox with IMAP?
What I want to do is to "read" messages from Thunderbird by connecting to dovecot-imapd. Pardon, I'm flailing a bit because of the terminology.
thanks,
Thufir
On 12/10/2012 03:50 AM, Thufir wrote:
Why is dovecot using Maildir and not IMAP.
In that case you probably want to have Dovecot using Maildir or mdbox as the underlying storage format (both are better performing than Mbox). If dovecot-imapd is running and your authentication is set up ok you should simply be able to connect to the server with Thunderbird and read your email.
IMAP clients don't care how the server is storing the email, they just "talk IMAP" and don't see the format the messages are actually stored with.
Cheers
Alex
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