IMAP Prefrence

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Aug 11 12:06:02 PDT 2004


In the last episode (Aug 11), Joshua Lewis said:
> I am trying to set up my mail server with Postfix and wish to use
> IMAP.
> 
> I tried asking the postfix mailing list this question and did not
> receice and feedback.
> 
> Does Postfix have built in IMAP support or do I have to use a third
> party. If I have to use a third party are there any suggestions?

They have no connection to each other.  Postfix is software used to
deliver emails between servers, and IMAP is a user protocol for reading
a mailbox.  Install imap-uw, courier-imap, cyrus-imapd, dovecot, or any
of the other imap servers in ports I'm too lazy to type into this
message.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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