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UW-IMAPD configuration 

Introduction 

The UW IMAP server is the reference server implementation of the IMAP protocol. Mark Crispin wrote both, the imap daemon and the RFC. 

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2060.txt 

http://panda.com/mrc/ 

Note uw-imapd serves /var/spool/mail/username as INBOX and user's home as imap folders. 

Installation 

Install the package, 

uw-imapd

or just get Pine sources, 

http://www.washington.edu/pine/getpine/unix.html

and build it, 

tar xvzf pine*.tar.gz

cd pine*

check for available targets, 

ls -l pine/makefile*

then, for example, 

./build NOSSL lnx

Configuration 

If this hasn't already been done (needed for cgywin), 

mkdir /var/spool/

mkdir /var/spool/mail

ln -s /var/spool/mail /var/mail

Configure the service, 

vi /etc/xinetd.d/imapdexample

for example, 

service imap

  {

    socket_type = stream

    wait = no

    server = /usr/sbin/uw-imapd

    user = exampleuser

    protocol = tcp

    disable = no

    port = 143

}

Start the daemon 

Launch xinet, 

xinetd

or for Redhat systems, 

service xinetd reload