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NO tutorial as of yet, due to lack of time. However, exactly what do you have problems with? In the meantime, I've posted a lot of IMAP set-up tips and Modern Nomads have published some step-by-step tutorials to set up mailboxes.

BTW, if you fetch your mail very often (say, every 2-3 minutes), the above-explained behaviour (Messaging always gets the full UID list of all the messages, unlike Qmail, which only gets the last) can result in a considerable bandwidth consumption. For example, if you have some 30 mails in your mailbox, the UID list itself can easily take 400-500 bytes (a record takes 8-15 bytes, depending on how the POP3 server gives out UID's etc). If you have even more mails online, the situation will be even worse. (Of course, a lot depends on the packet size used in the communication too.)

I will speak to the Microsoft Messaging folks on, for example, adding a new checkbox to switch to a Qmail-like behavior. It'd RADICALLY reduce the consumed bandwidth in this (many mails in the mailbox and frequent connections to check whether there are new mails) case.

You can surely use SKSchema - but why? Messaging already has excellent auto-fetch capabilities.

If you do use auto-fetch, however, it'll fetch everything (at least the headers of new mails, depending on the actual setting).

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