On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 04:07, Amelia A.Lewis wrote:
Does dovecot support shared folders, maildir style?
No shared folder support yet, sorry.
It's interesting that dovecot manages to present folders as siblings (rather than children) of INBOX.
Yeah, I got annoyed at that with Courier. It was probably done so that there would be a completely private namespace for the user, but I don't think it's that bad to reserve a couple of folder names to specify shared namespaces. Although I'll probably make it optional to specify a separate namespace for private folders too.
Another question: can the dovecot distribution include a maildirmake utility?
Well, maybe. It might confuse people though, since Dovecot doesn't yet support shared folders and quota. Also Dovecot itself doesn't really care about the contents of maildir, it's enough to simply create ~/Maildir and Dovecot creates the missing folders. qmail and others might not do that though.
Nice stuff, though. I really like the ease of administration; dovecot looks to me like a sort of equivalent to postfix, for IMAP instead of SMTP.
I'm trying to make it fool proof :)
A request for the website: perhaps developers could supply information on clients used with the server, and what oddities are encountered?
Yes, I guess I could. I haven't found many oddities yet though.
I know that IMAP client support is spotty, at best (for instance, I can't find a client that can do digest-md5; mutt is supposedly capable, but my installation doesn't even admit that that's a valid authenticator). This is partly significant because setting up a system that uses options for which there is little or no client support is, perhaps, an exercise in futility.
Evolution can do digest-md5 and I'm using it all the time. mutt uses Cyrus SASL library, so you'll have to install libsasl-digestmd5-plain in Debian. Except it doesn't seem to like Dovecot's implementation, have to fix..