[Dovecot] IMAP instead of Maildir on Ubuntu Precise

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Mon Dec 10 13:56:37 EET 2012


On 2012-12-10 6:50 AM, Thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why is dovecot using Maildir and not IMAP.  Or is it using even using 
> Maildir at all?

? Maildir is a way of *storing* emails.

IMAP is a protocol used by mail server *applications*, for providing 
*access* to email *clients* that speak the IMAP protocol.

Now... maybe you can rephrase the question? ;)

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Best regards,

Charles




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