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prayer for Debian
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The Debian version of Prayer is built with SSL support with session
cache using libdb4.3, gzip Content-Transfer-Encoding, LDAP, and System
V mutex support. The previous version, which was only uloaded to the
experimental distribution, was heavily patched to add UTF-8 and IPv6
support among other things. All that has been incorporated and
improved by upstream in 1.1.0. The remaining patches concern changes
to default configuration regarding directory structure, and minor
cosmetic changes to the folder list.

Quirks:

 * If your IMAP server supports STARTTLS, then Prayer (actually the
   libc-client IMAP client library) will use it automatically. To
   disable, append "/notls" to the IMAP server name(s) specified with
   imapd_server. To force TLS, append "/tls". Make sure that the
   server name you specify for imapd_server in prayer.cf matches the
   Common Name in the SSL certificate; otherwise libc-client will
   refuse to accept it. To disable that check, use "/novalidate-cert".
   Other switches you can append are listed in the file naming.txt.gz
   in the documentation directory of the C-client library.

 * If your IMAP server is Dovecot (or any of a number of others,
   probably), then you must change prefs_folder_name to something not
   containing a dot. Unfortunately this means that the preference
   folder will be fully visible.

 -- Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@debian.org>, Tue, 13 May 2008 22:27:11 +0200