Dovecot - Postfix Calender Synchronisation

Roger Klorese rogerklorese at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 23:55:13 EEST 2017


“Webmail? We use dovecot.” And how exactly do you read and write mail using
dovecot?
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:56 AM Gregory Sloop <gregs at sloop.net> wrote:

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> RG> Re: portable formats and their mime type
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> RG> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar
> RG> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard
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> RG> Re: dependencies
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> RG> - db: why? just use the ical and vcard files! They are files,
> RG> they are in a directory, they can be used like dovecot uses eml
> RG> files! No need for postgresql or mysql.
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> RG> - webmail: why? We use dovecot!!!
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> RG> - apache web: why? we use nginx.
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> RG> - linux: why? we use other unix systems.
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> RG> - python: why? it takes 140MB all by itself, it is an interpreter
> RG> (slow), it is a security hazard, we would have to install it on
> RG> purpose and sanbox it in a virtual machine! So we have to install a vm
> manager.
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> RG> Bloody hell...
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> This is a little tongue-in-cheek, but...
> Do you also yell "Get offa my lawn you dirty punk kids!" regularly?
>
> I thought I had the curmudgeonly-old-man schtick down, but you're like Obi
> Wan.
> :)
>


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