From: Michael J Wise (mjwisekapu.net)
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 03:27:28 CDT

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On Oct 2, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Varun wrote:
> Pollywog wrote:
>> On 10/02/2005 03:39 pm, Varun wrote:
>>> What does then courier-imap do then ?
>> Courier-imap allows you to read your mail (in your Maildir).
>> Mail will read by a email client which will retrieve it from the
>> Maildir.
> So basically Courier-imap comes into picture between Maildir and email
> client.

Courier IMAP is the piece of software that handles the requests from
the Email client, such as Eudora or Outlook, and tells them what is in
the Maildir, and delivers the messages up to them in a format they can
use so that they can display it nice and pretty to the user.

Otherwise, people would have to read their email by starting up an SSH
session and doing the following:

        cd Maildir
        cd new
        ls -l
        less ...

And most people are not interested in doing that.
Although, from time to time, I find it neat, myself....

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