IMAP storage ?

[Xavier Maillard]

Hi,

I am planning to setup a new mail servers and my choice is to use
an IMAP server (dovecot).

Do you know any easy way to take advantage of this situation with
nmh ? I mean I want to "map" my current ~/var/spool/mail into an
IMAP-folder hierarchy. I do not plan to use any webclient (at the
moment) so sequence support is not really important. I just want
to be able to sync my mails between multiple locations.

Cheers,

Xavier

[Joel Reicher]

Xavier Maillard <x...@gnu.org> writes:

If you mean that your ~/var/spool/mail is MH-format storage then what
you're really asking (probably) is whether there is an IMAP server
that has support for MH-format storage.

Dovecot does not...

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat

...but as mentioned on that page UW-IMAP does.

Your comment about syncing mails makes me wonder whether you're
setting up IMAP only to achieve the sync. If so, that's a very bad
idea; IMAP is designed to make accessing mail storage easy for MUAs,
and is designed around the kind of things MUAs need to do.

This makes it very inefficient for a simple sync or backup. If that's
all you want, choose something designed to sync or backup file
hierarchies.

Cheers,

- Joel