Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 07:28:37 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: IMAP Message-ID: <001a01c066dd$ff4b3ba0$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I'd appreciate comments on the following I receive several hundred emails per day into 7 different email accounts and I believe I need to install some renditition of IMAP in order that Netscape will work with multiple mail accounts. I have to date configured the LAN here so that all email ends up in a Win2000 / Outlook Express system, mainly because its very straightforward to configure with POP3. (yes I know its ustable & stuffs up the formatting) The problem with Netscape, at least to 4.7, (haven't found much real info on 6 yet) is that it doesn't recognize more than one POP3 account & apparently the only solution is to resort to IMAP on the local mailserver. I've looked at both cyrus & imap-uw. Cyrus doesn't appear to be viable as its documentation is so sparse that I haven't a clue about configuring it, and I'm concerned about potential security issues with imap-uw. Another alternative I considered was to run pine on the server & access it via SSH ...... discounted that because it seems impractical to run 7different accounts & printing anything in Microsoft format (yes some people in industry do use that occasionally) is a marathon effort. Are there other ways I haven't thought of to get this sorted out ?? [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd appreciate comments on the following </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I receive several hundred emails per day into 7 different email accounts and </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>I believe I need to install some renditition of IMAP in order that Netscape will work with multiple mail accounts. I have to date configured the LAN here so that all email ends up in a Win2000 / Outlook Express system, mainly because its very straightforward to configure with POP3. (yes I know its ustable & stuffs up the formatting) </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The problem with Netscape, at least to 4.7, (haven't found much real info on 6 yet) is that it doesn't recognize more than one POP3 account & apparently the only solution is to resort to IMAP on the local mailserver.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've looked at both cyrus & imap-uw. Cyrus doesn't appear to be viable as its documentation is so sparse that I haven't a clue about configuring it, and I'm concerned about potential security issues with imap-uw. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Another alternative I considered was to run pine on the server & access it via SSH ...... discounted that because it seems impractical to run 7different accounts & printing anything in Microsoft format (yes some people in industry do use that occasionally) is a marathon effort.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Are there other ways I haven't thought of to get this sorted out ??</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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