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Title: Problems with IMAP & QTMail
Post by: jimg_uk2000 on April 27, 2004, 02:51:49 pm

I have my own IMAP server on SUSE Linux (using IMAPD). It works fine with Outlook Express under Windows, and Squirrelmail, but I have problems with QTMail.

QTMail works fine with POP3D but when I try to set-up an IMAP account, it tries to download _all_ the folders in my $HOME directory.


Can anyone offer any advice?

Title: Problems with IMAP & QTMail
Post by: Stubear on April 28, 2004, 02:43:57 am

Qtmail doesn\'t work with IMAP AFAIK, actually I don\'t think any of the Qtopia based mail apps work with IMAP - tkcMail definitly doesn\'t although tkc has been promising for months.

Stu

Title: Problems with IMAP & QTMail
Post by: jimg_uk2000 on April 28, 2004, 05:16:53 am

That\'s confusing because QTmail has IMAP as a choice of protocol.

Title: Problems with IMAP & QTMail
Post by: holck on April 28, 2004, 05:46:27 am

I have QTmail working with IMAP, but as jimg_uk2000 notices, it is a problem that it downloads all emails in all folders. Because I have a large number of emails at the server, downloading seems to take forever. You can, however, limit the problem by selecting \"Skip large emails\" , and e.g. skip all emails larger than 50k.

Title: Problems with IMAP & QTMail
Post by: chimyfolkbutter on April 28, 2004, 05:47:50 am

Yea, I decided not to use QTmail becuase it didn\'t have date restrictions or even an option to download headers only.

I still haven\'t found an email that allows headers only and date restricions.

Is there anything out there?

Title: Problems with IMAP & QTMail
Post by: Stubear on April 28, 2004, 08:02:12 am

My understandoing of it that Qtmail can read from IMAP, but uses it as it would a POP account - ie all email are downloaded locally - which is of course what you don\'t want if you are using IMAP.

Stu

Title: Problems with IMAP & QTMail
Post by: PaulB on May 03, 2004, 09:14:43 am

Why don\'t you use browser to read mail via web, since you have squirrelmail installed? I do that all the time and it works like a charm (with imap)

-- Paul

Title: Problems with IMAP & QTMail
Post by: jimg_uk2000 on May 04, 2004, 02:51:14 am

when  needs must that \'s what I do, but I find the narrow screen awkward with squirrelmail.
anyway POP3 is working well.