Harmeet Bedi wrote:
> James does not support mbox. I don't think there is a plan to support mbox.
> I think mbox is nice but not important for James(just my 2 cents).
Think about this configuration:
sendmail, imapd, pop3d, fetchmail, procmail, pine/mutt/mail.
The beauty of that config is that the users would be able to get into
their mailboxes be it remotely (pop/imap) or locally.
> One could write a value add tool on top of James or any POP3 Server to
> convert to and from mbox. In the testing are there is a simple POP3Hammering
> class that one could modify to get messages and put into mbox.
> Would this tool idea work ?
I don't know which one would be easier; having some additional features
on James so that it will be able to have the same capabilities as the
above config (the beautiful config), or having some new tools that can
fetch email via POP but don't rely on port 25 for sending local mail.
But thinking about the nature of object-orientedness in James, the first
one would be more feasible; I think, you'd need only to add the storage
mechanism in the James repositories.
Problem is, even if James supported the mbox format, there's no added
value for any sysadmins to install James. But at least, they would be
able to have the same capabilities on their current systems. And
speaking about system migrations, it's pretty important; why would you
be interested to migrate if you would lose some of the capabilities?
James may support database mailboxes. But thing is, users don't care
much about the underlying storage mechanisms.
If I were a sysadmin in an ISP which provides remote login, I'd be
thinking twice in implementing James as the mail server. I'm glad (?)
that the users here in my place mostly using Outlook Express as their
mail clients. If they were given access to remote login, I'd be in
trouble; I believe that some of them would ask for local _and_ remote
mail access.
Oki
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