From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 7 15:31:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A6C16A4DA for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:31:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039F043D46 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:31:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4190A8A007E; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 08:38:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 53213-01-33; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 08:38:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webmail.sd73.bc.ca (unknown [10.10.10.17]) by smtp.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50D348A00B2; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 08:38:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webmail.sd73.bc.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by webmail.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DBE8900060F; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 08:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 192.168.0.10 (SquirrelMail authenticated user fcash) by webmail.sd73.bc.ca with HTTP; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 08:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37556.192.168.0.10.1152286282.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 08:31:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Freddie Cash" To: "David J. Orman" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at sd73.bc.ca Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IAMP servers in FreeBSD for ISP X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fcash@ocis.net List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:31:38 -0000 On Thu, July 6, 2006 8:46 pm, David J. Orman wrote: > The only thing I'll warn you about, it uses a proprietary > mailstore format, so if you ever migrate you'll need a converter. Just > a heads up so you know what you're getting into! It was quite fast and > handled heavy load well (until I experienced the corruption.) I used to think that, until someone told me to actually look at the messages on disk. Cyrus uses Maildir format for the actual messages. It keeps a bunch of extra databases for things like message status, message count, indexing and the like. But the actual messages are stored as plain Maildir. You can view all the messages with any text editor. To "convert" messages between any two IMAP servers, I've found the imapsync program to work the best. It sync any two accounts on any two IMAP servers (or any two accounts on one IMAP server). Since it uses IMAP to do the sync, the actual message storage format doesn't matter. The IMAP servers just pass plain text around. :) Works like a hot damn, and is a lot simpler, easier, better than all those mbox2maildir-type perl scripts. ---- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net