Switching from UW to Courier IMAP (RH9 SquirrelMail)

[dontodd]

Hi,

I'm new to Redhat, but I got SquirrelMail set up and working with the default UW IMAP server. I decided to try Courier IMAP because it uses maildir format and may or may not have other advantages depending on your perspective. Anyway, I *think* I got Courier installed OK. I turned off UW and modified my .procmailrc to point to ~/Maildir/ as default. I ran a conversion script that turned my old mbox files to maildir, put them in ~/Maildir/.Junk, ~/Maildir/.MakeJunk etc. Everything seems to be in order. However, when I log in with SM or even a MUA like Thunderbird I can't see the other folders. (I did go into SM config and tell it to use Courier server and to use . as the folder separator.)

Also, I purchased an SSL certificate for my domain--can I use this same certificate to do imap over SSL?

Thanks,
dt

[dontodd]

Well after reading some real documentation instead of how other people did it on the Web, I found that I needed to have a file called courierimapsubscribed in ~/Maildir containing a list of subscribed folders, like

INBOX.Trash
INBOX.Junk

Also, within SquirrelMail, I had to remove the reference to Maildir/ as the folder for IMAP mail. Go figure.

Now if I could just get SSL + IMAP working ...

[alexander]

I thought that courierimapsubscribed should be installed automatically?
I have in my use folder
./Draft
./Sent
./Trash
(This is created for Squirrelmail I believe)
/cur
/new
/tmp
maildirsize
courierimapsubscribed
courierimapuiddb

[dontodd]

I thought that courierimapsubscribed should be installed automatically?


It probably was, but I think it was empty (?), I'm not sure if this was when I tried accessing via SquirrelMail or Thunderbird.

I've since switched to Dovecot for IMAP server; it uses a file, .subscriptions, which can be copied from courierimapsubscribed with the "INBOX." before each entry removed.

[alexander]

There is an option in Squirrelmail (if you run conf.pl with option "D"?) to setup Squirrelmail with defferent IMAPs - choose courier-imap and courierimapsubscribed will be created automatically with all folders...