Binc IMAP - Contributions	GNU General Public License Andreas Aardal Hanssen <andreas@hanssen.name>

This page is for user contributions to the Binc IMAP project.

The author does not maintain these plugins and patches, but the Binc IMAP users' mailing list or the author of the patch/plugin can be a useful place to email if you need help with the contributions.

• (2003-07-08) Gary has a way to run Bruce Guenter's relay-control with Binc IMAP.
• (2003-05-10) Lukas Beeler wrote a short and dense document about how to set up Binc IMAP with vmailmgr.

• (2003-02-24) Marek Gutkowski has written a small vmailmgr authenticator, or rather a replacement for bincimap-uidpwd. This works only with 1.0.24-1 or earlier versions. The latest releases of Binc IMAP can use vmailmgr's checkpassword replacement.
• (2003-02-08) Ivan F. Martinez has written an authenticator that allows users to use teapop (a pop3 server) configuration to authenticate users in Binc IMAP. Note: Only works with 1.0.24-1 or earlier versions.

• Mozilla
  • Start the Mozilla browser and click on the mailbox at the lower left corner, or start the mail client directly.
  • Enter the Edit menu. Click "Mail & Newsgroups settings". A settings window pops up.
  • Click "Add Account" in the lower left corner. A wizard pops up. Follow the instructions and remember to select IMAP and not POP. The "Incoming Server" should contain the name of your mail server.
  • When finished with the wizard, select your account from the list on the left hand side. Click on the "Server Settings" item.
  • If your server supports SSL (it usually does), check the "Use secure connection (SSL)" checkbox. Now click OK.
  • Note that to subscribe to mailboxes, you must right-click on your account entry in the mail client and click "Subscribe".
• Pine
  • Start pine and enter S for setup, then C for config.
  • In the "inbox-path" setting, replacing imap.example.com with your mail server name and username with your IMAP user name, enter

    {imap.example.org/user=username}INBOX

    If you use a self-signed SSL certificate, enter

    {imap.example.org/novalidate-cert/user=username}INBOX

    If you do not want to use SSL or TLS, enter

    {imap.example.org/notls/user=username}INBOX
• Evolution
  • Start evolution, and click on "Settings" from the "Tools" menu.
  • In the "Mail accounts" tab, click "Add".
  • Follow the instructions in the setup wizard. Select "IMAP" as the server type. The "Host" field should contain the name of your mail server. Select SSL support if your server supports it (it usually does).
  • When you are done with the wizard, you can subscribe to folders using the "Subscribe to folders" item in the "Tools" menu.