Re: [exim] Newbie Question about Webmail

> > I suppose theoretically you could have a webmail app
> > which reads mail directly from a Maildir folder rather than connecting
> > to an IMAP service, but I'm not aware of any.
>
> There are several, actually.
>
> But a solid IMAP daemon, such as Dovecot, behind an equally-solid
> compiled-not-interpeted Webmail is both more abuse-resistant and more
> stable.

On my small private server Exim delivers (appendfile transport) to
mailboxes in mailbox format (not maildir),
mailboxes can be accessed with openwebmail (openwebmail.org),
the same mailboxes can be accessed also
via POP3 (popa3d invoked from inetd)
and POP3S (stunnel invoked from inetd, connecting to localhost).
No IMAP.
Webmail is slow but doesn't consume expensive memory (VPS) when idle.
Primary access is via POP3 and POP3S, webmail is for emergencies.