[UFO Chicago] playing around with IMP

[Brian T. Grant]

I run both IMP and SquirrelMail on my mail server. No doubt about it: 
SquirrelMail is a lot easier to get installed and working. There is a deb
package for it, and it just worked when I installed it, whereas I found IMP's
installation was a bit more complicated. 

If you use MBOX format for new mail, you should have no problem swapping between
mail clients. All you need to do is touch a file called "mbox" in your home
directory and, when a mail client makes a connection through IMAP, it moves all
of the mail from /var/mail/user to the mbox file. I've been running this way for
months now, and I alternate between IMP, pine (I just don't understand what you
see in mutt) and Mail.app on OS X. The only hassle is having to maintain
multiple address books. 

I have yet to set up spam filtering. Postfix has built-in filtering that is
fairly easy to set up, from what I understand. We use postfix at work on our
mail gateway and it works like a charm. 

Quoting "Peter A. Peterson II" <pedro@tastytronic.net>:

> Quoting Peter A. Peterson II:
> > IMP doesn't technically require a database. But you might be right
> > about the extensibility. We'll see.
> 
> I must say, just from the website, that Squirrelmail definitely looks
> lighter and friskier, almost like a small rodent. I'll be interested
> to see how it handles things -- as I said, right now IMP handles
> things just like I'd expect a console client to do so, and it's
> important for me anyway to be able to switch between mutt/IMP without
> any fudging or duplication.
> 
> And the squirrelmail install looks easy as pie.
> 
> pedro
> 
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