Re: [9fans] Mail configuration

[Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>]

> I am using plan9port on linux, and I want to be able to read mail from
> some account I have in some server running IMAP.
> Since this is the first time I try to configure a mail client (gmail
> is just so easy) I have no clue on what exactly I should do or if it
> is even possible to read mail using plan9's utilities on linux.
> The wiki has something about reading email on plan 9, but I do not
> know if this should work also for plan9port (to begin with I cannot
> find upas/fs).
> Probably this a stupid question, so I hope someone could give me some
> pointers to start with.

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