Linux-Outlook (ouch) question

[mcmanus at ducksong.com (Patrick R. McManus)]

I recently built UW's imap-2001a from source.. here's what its faq
says:

Q: Is there support for mh?
A: Yes, but only as a legacy format.  Your mh format INBOX is accessed by
    the name "#mhinbox", and all other mh format mailboxes are accessed by
    prefixing "#mh/" to the name, e.g. "#mh/foo".  The mh support uses the
    "Path:" entry in your .mh_profile file to identify the root directory
    of your mh format mailboxes.
   Non-legacy use of mh format is not encouraged.  There is no support for
    permanent flags or unique identifiers; furthermore there are known
    severe performance problems with the mh format.


Q: Is there support for qmail and the maildir format?
A: There is no support for qmail or the maildir format in our distribution,
    nor are there any plans to add such support.  Maildir support may be
    available from third parties.


Q: Is there support for the Cyrus mailbox format?
A: No.


-P

[John Abreau: Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:46:41PM -0500]
> plussier at mindspring.com writes:
> 
> > Unless you're switching to an mh-based system, which IMO is better ;)
> 
> Speaking of MH-based systems, has anyone heard of an MH-compatible
> back end that can talk to an IMAP server? I currently use exmh on top
> of nmh, which sucks the mail to my local hard drive, but this doesn't
> work so well for remote access. When I'm on the road with my laptop,
> it uses too much bandwidth to ssh through my cable modem and then
> run exmh remotely, and the command-line nmh interface is a real pain
> in comparison to exmh.
> 
> I figure it would be tolerable if I ran an imapd on my workstation and
> configured exmh to access my mailbox there via localhost. Then I could
> set up a simple ssh tunnel to connect from a laptop. But I don't see
> any imapd option for nmh.
> 
> 
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