[X-Unix] local IMAP server?

[Michael Gmail]

On Mar 18, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Stroller wrote:

>> Am I overlooking anything?
>
> What I found complicated was wrapping my head around the other mail 
> transport layers. You don't need to worry about SMTP / Postfix / 
> sendmail, because Entourage / Mail.app on your Mac can talk directly 
> to your ISP's mailserver. but when you've finished installing your 
> IMAP server you'll want some way of getting mail from the mailboxes 
> you have with your ISP to your IMAP inbox. I use fetchmail for this - 
> it can be told to call maildrop for message-filtering. You'll probably 
> find yourself reading a few manpages.

Actually I've been using sendmail and later Postfix and bypassing my 
ISP for outgoing mail for years, but I hadn't thought of that in 
relation to IMAP.
I'm more concerned that I'll go through the whole setup process only to 
find out that Entourage, or whatever other mail client I end up using, 
doesn't give me the capabilities with IMAP mail that it has with 
internally stored mail downloaded via POP. I finally did get some 
responses on the other list yesterday that seemed to indicate that I 
wouldn't have the same flexibility because of lack of metadata in IMAP 
unless I cached the mail in Entourage, which would defeat the whole 
purpose of setting up IMAP. Sorry for the ignorance, but I've never had 
an IMAP account so I have no clear idea of what its limitations may be.

Thanks,
Michael


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