Peter Davis 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?
So after a month, I haven't had time to make much headway in getting an IMAP server set up. I'm starting to think I should just buy the Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack. It seems to come with Cyrus IMAP, and even Kolab. Any comments on this? Will it be easy to get this up and running from the CD set? At some point, I'd like to learn the ins and outs of installing all this software by hand, but in the meantime, I'd like to get the server up and running so I can use it.
Thanks, -pd
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