From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: 6o205zd02@sneakemail.com To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: References: <138575260902200038u11f6b862w705bcb6dfd3083b6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 23:52:12 -0800 Message-ID: <23496-82982@sneakemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Mail configuration Topicbox-Message-UUID: ab44338c-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 03:06 -0800, Russ Cox rsc-at-swtch.com |9fans| wrote: > I didn't bring over upas/fs. > There is a separate program, not installed > by default, in src/cmd/upas/nfs (n=new) > that speaks only imap. When installed, its > name is mailfs. It works with the nedmail > and acme Mail that are in the plan9port > distribution; the file tree is slightly different > than the standard upas/fs (more faithful to imap). > It downloads pieces of the message as it > needs them, so if you have big attachments, > they don't get downloaded until you ask for them. > Messages saved with the Save command > go into imap folders, not local files. > I used this setup for a few years against a dovecot > imap server. It does not work against the > gmail imap server, because gmail imap > will not serve the full mime tree of the message; > it only gives you the raw message bytes. > > Russ > I must be getting dumber, but while I think I successfully built and installed src/cmd/upas/nfs as mailfs (P9P on debian/testing linux), I have failed to figure out how to get it to talk to my dovecot server. Can someone post an example of the command-line they use to run it (perhaps with a short explanation of the arguments)? thanks, Peter Canning