Tuesday, September 3, 2002, 1:03:34 PM, you wrote: > All my mail is collected on my web server in one account, lets call > the domain mydomain.com and the account admin, therefore all my mail > goes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . If a user emails [EMAIL PROTECTED], it > is put into the admin folder. I am currently using a POP3 mailserver > which connects to mydomain.com ever 2 minutes and pulls down all the > new mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and sorts it into the correct > mailboxes ready to be collected locally by my users
I call this "multi-POP" or "POP3-based delivery". It is a proprietary techonology implemented in different ways by different mail servers and add-ons. In contrast, ETRN/ATRN is an Internet standard. Both technologies allow for "pull technology" allowing a destination (delivery) server to fetch mail on demand, rather than having it "pushed" 24/7, as in normal SMTP. Multi-POP and ETRN/ATRN variants are only necessary if the owners of the destination domain do not have a static IP address on the public Internet that accepts incoming traffic. If you do have a static IP address, there's no reason for you to NOT use traditional SMTP end-to-end delivery, cutting out the middle man, as it were. This is what Eric is trying to get across to you, but I think he hasn't filled in some conceptual gaps that are evident from your first message. > This is working fine, however im wanting to move to a total IMAP > solution. So im wanting Imail 7 to contact my web mailserver as the > current one does, and then download the mail and place into the > appropriate IMAP folders, ready for local viewing. IMAP4 is a client-side technology used mail user agents (MUAs) like Outlook, a.k.a. mail clients, to access mail AFTER it has been delivered to a specific e-mail address. The delivery protocol used could be standard SMTP, ETRN/ATRN pull SMTP, or your FTGate's proprietary POP3 mechanism--the MUA should not know or care how it got there. When you can, you use SMTP between servers. So there is no such thing as a "total IMAP solution," and if you could create one, it would not be desirable. If you are talking about a technology that parses out IMAP folder names from non-IMAP storage (i.e. POP3 accounts or individual mailboxes), this is going to be very hard to find. You could write it using scripting with these particular platforms in mind, but it's not going to be fun. IMail does allow you download over POP3 from individual IMAP folders, one at a time, by using the <username>-<folder> syntax when logging in. But your server would have to have similar support for delivering directly to folders for this to function as any sort of "connector." > For reference, imcurrently using FTGateOffice as my mail server. > Can Imail import mail stored (over 5000 messages) into the new IMAP > folders? IMail uses the Unix mailbox format to store its messages. If FTGateOffice stores messages in this format natively (a good test is to transplant mailboxes onto your trial version of IMail), then you don't even have to worry about importing. If it's a different native format, Ipswitch has some conversion tips in their KB (search for "migrate") for some formats, while for others it will be necessary to use IMail's built-in MUA to download and reupload the messages. It all depends on the format used on disk by FTGateOffice. -Sandy To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
