[Dovecot] IMAP instead of Maildir on Ubuntu Precise

[Thufir]

LOL, ok, well that was a total non-issue.  I connected by using
"thufir at 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 at 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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