[plug] Recommended local mail access method

[Shayne O'Neill]

dovecot :)

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On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> Shayne O'Neill wrote:
>
> > For reference, I tried to load a ridiculously huge inbox into outlook
> > express, and the damn thing tried to map my somewhat sprawling home dir
> > into folders, generating some 2000 folders (I think the damn thing was
> > even trying to follow symlinks). Naturally I decided that 'outlook express
> > considered harmful'.
>
> That one sounds more like a case of "UW imapd considered broken" to
> me.  (Which moron decided that treating every file in your home
> directory as a mailbox was a sensible default for an IMAP server!?)
>
> Cameron.
>
>
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