joel wrote:
I have some users who would like to be able to use a webmail client (e.g., SquirrelMail) when they can't log in to read their mail with nmh. Webmail clients tend to use IMAP servers for storage. I don't know of any way to configure nmh to use an IMAP server for storage (nor do I really want that), nor do I know of any webmail clients which use MH directories for storage. One way to solve this would be to have an IMAP server which uses the user's Mail/ for storage. Has anyone here faced this problem before? Does such a beast already exist?
chris garrigues posted his "mhaildirsync" script here some time ago. i've played with it a few times, but imap access has never reached the level of "must have" for me, so i've never finished implementing it in my mail flow. essentially what mhaildirsync does is periodically (frequently) sync a hard-linked tree between an mh datastore (the primary store) to a Maildir store (which can be served by imap). chris initially published version 0.1, but sent me a second version privately when i expressed interest. i'll attach that version below, but chris may have a more recent version. paul chris' words:
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:13:25 CDT To: nmh-workers(_at_)nongnu(_dot_)org From: Chris Garrigues <cwg-nmh(_at_)Trinsics(_dot_)Com> Subject: [Nmh-workers] mhaildirsync 0.1 I have recently written a Perl script to synchronize my MH hierarchy with a Maildir++. since MH and Maildir++ both keep messages in separate files, this could be implemented entirely using hard links so it takes little hard drive space and runs quickly (for a Perl script). A message can be added to or removed from any folder in either hierarchy and the change will be propagated to the other hierarchy. Maildir flags are mapped into a subset of MH sequences. I am an exmh user and every time I've tried to move away from it, I've become frustrated with the poor job other MUAs do handling a mail hierarchy as complex as mine. On the other hand, the ability to occasionally access my email from a fully MIME-savvy mail reader on either my PC or my Mac can be very useful. This script allows me to go back and forth between MH and IMAP environments with ease. I couldn't get an MH-based IMAP server to work, so I did this instead. Besides, my other users are using a courier-imap and I didn't really want to run another IMAP server on a funny port just for me. I run this on my mail server every 2 minutes with cron.
=--------------------- paul fox, pgf(_at_)foxharp(_dot_)boston(_dot_)ma(_dot_)us (arlington, ma, where it's 75.0 degrees)
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