Configuring IMAP on Redhat 8.0

[LuckyTaxi]

I installed Postfix along with the default IMAP daemon that came with RH 8.0. Everything works fine, but I hate the fact that the email isn?t delivered to the ?maildir? style that courier-imap and qmail offers. I installed courier-imap from source as well as RPM and I still couldn?t get it to work! I changed the postfix config file to allow the ?Maildir? style, but I wasn?t able to retrieve any email. I?m not even sure how to start courier-imap. I found a file under /usr/lib/courier called ?imapd? I run that and it sits there saying something like ?user=user ip=(127.0.0.1)? I assume it was running but still no luck.

Like I said, I have the IMAP that came with RH 8.0 running, but hate storing emails in /var/spool/mail

Also, I can?t send email via Outlook or Outlook express because the authentication is done via ?pop before SMTP.? Is there any way to stop this? If so where can I change this? Our users will be running checking their emails via squirrelmail, but we have some ppl running Outlook who WILL NOT want to switch to web mail. Nothing I can do about it (they are my boss). I checked postfix and I couldn?t find any reference to this.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[Need4Speed]

Like I said, I have the IMAP that came with RH 8.0 running, but hate storing emails in /var/spool/mail

you can use procmail and have it redirect the mail from var/spool/mail to any location of your choosing. I don't think that IMAP can be changed to modify that behavior. Not 100% sure on that.

I run sendmail with wu-imap and have procmail redirect mail to home/$user/Mail/Inbox. The drawback to that is that many clients look by default for var/spool/mail/$user and you will have to add the home/$user/Mail/Inbox as a subscription folder.