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2009 Dec 23
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basic understanding of imap in dovecot
...ys used a pop3 daemon, and switching to dovecot has been my
introduction to imap.
Imap is foreign to me.
I am wondering if I am a little off-track here, and would like some
clarification.
My MTA (exim) delivers email to: /mail/user
dovecot, sucks that mail from /mail/user TO
/home/user/mail/<filenamesoffolders>
dovecot IMAP further uses /home/user/mail/.imap/folders/{.index /
.index.cache / .index.log}
the mail folder which exim uses doesn't seem to get emptied by dovecot
when it sucks the email
into /home/user/mail/<filenamesoffolders> when using IMAP.
If POP3 is used via dovecot, then it...