[nzlug] imap question

[Warren Boyd]

On 2006-10-13, at 11:28 , anru chen wrote:

> thanks very much, i am use squirrelmail to read email, just want to
> know where is  Inbox stored.

SquirrelMail is just a web email reader - the Inbox will be stored  
according to your IMAP server setup ... which begs me to ask why you  
need to know where the Inbox is stored?  You full time sys admin  
should be able to help there more than us ... unless you can tell us  
what software you are using - as then we can help with where the  
configuration is stored.

>
> by the way, any one have any idea about which book about sendmail  
> is good?
> i have sendmail,(3rd version), that book is suck for beginner. or any
> book give some details how email systems work.

Without getting into the holy war - if you want to know more details  
about how email systems work, I would suggest to start here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#How_Internet_e-mail_works

And there's some links to the RFC's which are the documents used to  
work out how email is to work (or, in some large corporations  
"embrace and extend"...)

Also - as an aside, I would suggest downloading a copy of VMWare  
server and playing with things inside a VM setup before monkeying  
about with a real mail server and causing panics ...

HTH,
Warren.