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diff --git a/doc/getting-started.md b/doc/getting-started.md index c497ec6..7a77a6b 100644 --- a/doc/getting-started.md +++ b/doc/getting-started.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ format][mbox]). Local mail clients usually access it directly. They also often maintain their own cache in order to speed up message header listing and searches. -While most bidirectional synchronisation software (such as [OfflineIMAP]) +While most bidirectional synchronization software (such as [OfflineIMAP]) are able to handle a mail storage in Maildir format, *InterIMAP is not*. Instead, InterIMAP needs an [IMAP4rev1] server on *both* peers to synchronize. This may sound like a severe limitation at first, but by @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ perform significant optimizations, yielding [much faster](benchmark.html) synchronization. *Note*: InterIMAP uses the [Quick Mailbox Resynchronization][RFC 7162] extension for stateful synchronization, hence won't work on IMAP servers -that don't advertise support for that extension. +that don't advertise [support](https://www.imapwiki.org/Specs#line-68) +for that extension. Installing an [IMAP4rev1] server on a single-user workstation may sound overkill, but we argue that most systems, not only servers, come with a @@ -83,7 +84,7 @@ mailbox delivery) then don't disable them, and modify Dovecot's system wide configuration instead. Same thing if your mail client isn't able to spawn a command for IMAP communication, and instead insists on connecting to a network socket (in that case you'll even need to -configure [user authentication](https://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication) +configure [user authentication](https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/) for the IMAP service, which is out of scope for the present document). Run the following command to terminate and disable the system-wide @@ -112,7 +113,8 @@ Some remarks on the above: running `` `doveconf -nc ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/dovecot/dovecot.conf` ``. * Messages will be stored in Maildir format under `~/Mail`. Ensure the directory is either *empty* or *doesn't exist* before - continuing! You may want to choose a different [format](https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat) + continuing! You may want to choose a different + [format](https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/mailbox_formats/) here, or simply append `:LAYOUT=fs` to the `mail_location` value in order to use a nicer (File System like) Maildir layout. * The `separator` setting defines the IMAP hierarchy delimiter. This @@ -197,7 +199,7 @@ for the sake of clarity we start from an empty file here. shell process doesn't linger around during the IMAP session.) 3. And finally append a `[remote]` section with your account - information at `imap.example.org` (adapt the values accordingly): + information at `imap.example.net` (adapt the values accordingly): $ cat >>${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/interimap/config <<-EOF |