From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 29 13:44:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87CE216A4B3 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mygirlfriday.info (adsl-65-64-145-209.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net [65.64.145.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B6843FDD for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:44:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info) Received: (qmail 95559 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2003 20:43:44 -0000 Received: from user204.net795.mo.sprint-hsd.net (HELO mygirlfriday.info) (65.41.216.204) by mongo.mygirlfriday.info with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 29 Sep 2003 20:43:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 14270 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2003 20:44:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by major.mygirlfriday.info with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 29 Sep 2003 20:44:11 -0000 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:44:10 -0500 From: Gary To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1860000.1064868250@[192.168.0.5]> In-Reply-To: <20030929202546.73033.qmail@web10001.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030929202546.73033.qmail@web10001.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.0b8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:44:15 -0000 --On Monday, September 29, 2003 01:25:46 PM -0700 Naveen Glore wrote: > I have a freeBSD server. Currently I am using POP3 server with MS outlook > as mail client. I would like to change POP3 to IMAP so that i can have a > centralized email system. They are two separate protocols. What you need is an IMAP server. You can leave your POP server on too if you wish. You can have both. > Could anyone suggest me some good documentation for converting POP3 > to IMAP. Please let me know if there are any important things i need > to keep in mind while making that change. The docs come with the type of IMAP server you wish to use. I would classify IMAP servers as to how they handle your mail. Some like UW uses, I believe, mbox format. Cyrus uses its own format, and I believe can convert mbox format to its own. If you currently run Maildir format type mail, there are two that come to mind, Bincimap and Courier.. -- Gary