[TriLUG] TriLUG IMAP Server problems (was Re: missing email)

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Rob Lockhart wrote:

> My point in using Webmail is that it isolates Thunderbird from
> server-side issues, or so I thought. O:-)

As you've noted, not really.  The webmail software is independent of the 
mail system and is an IMAP client just like Thunderbird.  It does happen 
to run on the same piece of hardware but that's just a coincidence, 
really.  Squirrelmail can be used (depending on configuration) to connect 
to any IMAP server; for example you could set up your own instance on a 
personal server to connect to any number of different IMAP accounts, just 
like a "thick-client" such as Thunderbird can do.

It should be noted that the list of folders you're subscribed to, is just 
a text file that's kept in the IMAP store, at the location 
{INBOX}/.subscriptions .  Apparrently these files were lost during the 
move to the new server, but I'm not quite sure why.  (Note - just because 
the file appears as a text file to the IMAP client doesn't mean that the 
Cyrus IMAP server actually stores them as a unique file on disk.)

--Jeremy

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