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Re: Mutt for dovecot maildir



Basically, I just want to access the mails via the mail interface. The dovecot 
has been configured and running, just that I am not sure how to send/receive 
mails via mutt if my mails are all located in /mail/%d/%n/%Maildir

--- On Wed, 4/15/09, Grant Edwards <grante@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Grant Edwards <grante@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Mutt for dovecot maildir
> To: mutt-users@xxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 11:33 AM
> On 2009-04-15, June Qiu <qljune@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> >>>>> I am looking for advise on how to
> configure the muttrc file so
> >>>>> that i see the mail on my imap
> directories.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am using dovecot with virtual users
> (login credentials in
> >>>>> mySQL) and my folders are in
> /mail/%d/%n/%Maildir
> >>>> 
> >>>> It's not clear what you're trying to do.?
> Do you want to
> >>>> access your mail using the IMAP protocol
> via the dovecot
> >>>> server, or do you want to access the
> maildir folders directly?
> >>>> 
> >>>> In either case, the Fine Manual explains
> how to configure
> >>>> mutt:
> >>>
> >>> thanks for the reference. Actually, I wanted
> to access the
> >>> mail using the IMAP protocol via the dovecot
> server.
> 
> > I wanted to add that if I hardcode the folder and
> spool to
> > /mail/mydomain.com/testuser01/Maildir.. it works
> >
> > But what if I wanted like some form of authentication
> to the
> > mailbox? or redirection to the unique user's mailbox
> when
> > different users login?
> 
> Sorry, I'm lost.  You say you want to use IMAP, but if
> you're
> putting in paths like that in for folder/spool, then you're
> not
> using IMAP, you access the folders directly.
> 
> Are you asking how to configure dovecot?
> 
> -- 
> Grant
> 
>