Tony S. Sykes wrote:
I've been using e-mail for over 2 decades, and even though I haven't
saved everything, I have several Gb of mail stored up in
various formats
(basically MH or mbox). I continue to get hundreds of
messages a day,
and after killing the spam, I keep maybe half of what's left.
One thing
I'd really like is to be able to keep all my e-mail, old and
new, in a
single, searchable archive that gets backed-up regularly.
I've been thinking that a good way to do that is to run an
IMAP server
on my Mandrake 10.0 box, so I can access the mail from anywhere
(Windows, Palm, etc.). My first choice would be to convert
all the mail
to MH format, but I'm open to other formats. I understand
the Univ. of
Washington IMAP server supports MH, and I assume there are
others. Do
IMAP servers typically provide any search or indexing
capabilities? I
imagine that would have to be on the server side.
Anyone have any experience setting up a machine like this?
How painful
is it?
Derek has got a good write up on how to install a mail server
www.jennings.homelinux.net hope that helps.
Thanks for the pointer. It looks pretty comprehensive.
Thanks!
-pd
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