Re: [Sheflug] Incoming /outgoing mail archives

[Marcus Hanwell <linux [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

> > > bincimap, courier-imap, cyrus-imap, uw-imap etc. You can use
> > > offlineimap
> > > too.
> > >      
> > Showing my ignorance but do these servers above sit on top of exim or
> > whatever server or are they stand alone?  My whole solution will be to
> >    
> In my setup mail gets received by exim and delievered to a mailbox file in 
> my users' folders. The IMAP server serves out from this file too. Makes 
> keeping backups wonderfully simple too...
>
>  
IMAP servers are pretty much standalone. Exim or whatever MTA you use 
(in my case postfix) delivers mail to a repository of some kind (maildir 
or mbox are most common - I use maildir). The MTA has then pretty much 
done it's bit and forgets them.

Then the POP3 or IMAP server accesses these mail repositories. Some do 
maildir, some mbox and some both. I use bincimap for IMAP, and have 
Courier's POP3 server for some friends. IMAP is fundamentally a server 
based mailstore, whereas POP3 delivers to the client and usually deletes.

They all work together, but are also quite separate.

Hope that clears it up a little.
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