Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 22:30:37 -0400 From: Ben Williams <williamsl@home.com> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re[2]: IMAP -> POP3 gateway? Message-ID: <6937.991006@home.com> In-Reply-To: <ML-3.4.939244684.311.patl@asimov> References: <ML-3.4.939244684.311.patl@asimov>
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Extremely unlikely for me to convince them to switch to IMAP would qualify for the "understatement of the year" award. I'll grab cyrus on my local machine soon and have a look. I have a basic idea for a framework in my head already but if I have to write it I'll probably have to look into the RFC's. For that matter I would probably come out easier just hacking the app I'm installing for them to use POP but that's what I'm trying to stay away from .. any other ideas? -- Ben <mailto:received@email.com> On or about Wednesday, October 06, 1999, sometime around 5:18:04 PM, you said: ppvo> On 6-Oct-99 at 13:27, Ben Williams (williamsl@home.com) wrote: >> FreeBSD, >> >> Does anyone know how I could go about setting up an IMAP server >> (uw-imap "IMAP4rev1 v12.250" from ports) to talk to a pop3 server? The >> reason I want to do this is the company I am working for has a custom >> smtp/pop3 server which holds all of its messages internally and the >> application I am trying to put together for them already has IMAP >> support built into to, but putting the IMAP server on the system >> results in empty mailboxes because the custom smtp/pop3 is holding all >> the messages in non-standard ways and places. >> >> Any ideas and all help appreciated. ppvo> The Cyrus IMAP server comes with a POP daemon that translates the ppvo> POP requests into IMAP. That's the exact opposite of what you want; ppvo> but it still might provide a framework. (I'm assuming that it is ppvo> extremely unlikely that you could convince them to switch to a standard ppvo> IMAP server with POP access; even one like Cyrus that keeps all the ppvo> mail in a private area and forces access via IMAP/POP.) ppvo> -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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