Not that it matters, but your account is actually @umn.edu now. NTS migrated off the @tc... about a year ago. </nitpick> btw, hi to everyone, new to the list, etc. etc. -John >>> mitc0185 at tc.umn.edu 08/07/02 10:36PM >>> Ok, perhaps I can shed a little more light on my situation. My mail account is @tc.umn.edu, so maybe someone has some familiarity with the way they do things. Here's an idea: I could set up fetchmail on my box and get everything from tc.umn.edu via POP3. I could then run imap service from this box so I can see my email from work. I wouldn't have to worry about disk space (except for my own, of which there's plenty) either. Eh? EM On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 09:55, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Uhm -- I believe MBX is mailbox format and that is the problem this guy ishaving. It does not support concurrent access because imapd is started viainetd for each access. Courier runs as a daemon and can handle any numberof connections (more or less). As far as inodes go, it is up to the adminto setup the filesystem to handle that. You could use a differentfilesystem or perhaps format the partition with lots of inodes. I can saythat I have had no trouble with inodes. All my mail drops into Maildir onmy /home partition and it works great. I set quotas accordingly. Visi.comruns Courier IMAP on their primary mail cluster without trouble or incident.Tom Veldhouse----- Original Message -----From: "Scott Dier" <dieman at ringworld.org>To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 9:09 AMSubject: [TCLUG] Re: Concurrent clients and IMAP> On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 07:33, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:> > Try converting to Maildir format from mbox. In other words, cease usingthe> > Washington University wu-imap and instead use Courier. This runs as a> > daemon and will handle multiple connections to the same mailbox at thesame> > time. It also has its own POP3 daemon if you want to enable it.>> Or, stop wasting your inodes and use MBX[*] with uw-imapd. I only use> Maildir on the client side because offlineimap forces me to. I should> look into running a local imapd instance and port offlineimap to talk> MBX too. Maildir sucks. Slow. MUA's don't act the same compared to> mbox or imap. Eats inodes.>> [*] Offer not valid on NFS.>> --> Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> http://www.ringworld.org/>> _______________________________________________> Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul,Minnesota> http://www.mn-linux.org> tclug-list at mn-linux.org> https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list>_______________________________________________Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesotahttp://www.mn-linux.orgtclug-list@mn-linux.orghttps://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Erik Mitchellwww.erikmitchell.orgmitc0185 at tc.umn.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020809/05473a61/attachment.htm