Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-10-01 Thread Naveen Glore
Hello, Gary, thankyou for all the information. I will start working on setting up the mail server. Thanks, Naveen Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Naveen, --On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:42:00 PM -0700 Naveen Glore wrote: In mailserver I think the messages will be stored in

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-10-01 Thread Gary
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:40:23AM -0700 or thereabouts, Naveen Glore wrote: Gary, thankyou for all the information. I will start working on setting up the mail server. You are welcome. Once you get the hang of it, you will appreciate its simplicity. It's the concept that has to sink in g

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-30 Thread Naveen Glore
Hello, I understand that qmail is very secured than sendmail. Since these two are completly different from each other, is it difficult to change from sendmail to qmail? i would really appreciate if you could tell me where i can find proper documentation for it. I need documentation which

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-30 Thread Gary
Hi Naveen, --On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 08:08:17 AM -0700 Naveen Glore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I understand that qmail is very secured than sendmail. Since these two are completly different from each other, is it difficult to change from sendmail to qmail? i would really appreciate

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:20:41 -0500 Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Naveen, --On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 08:08:17 AM -0700 Naveen Glore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I understand that qmail is very secured than sendmail. Since these two are completly different from each other,

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-30 Thread Gary
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:02:22AM -0700 or thereabouts, Chris Pressey wrote: ...except for some FreeBSD-specific info :) Here are some tips: 1) FreeBSD uses a MTA wrapper which makes your mailer *look* like sendmail, regardless of what your mailer actually is. This wrapper is located at

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:31:38 -0700 (PDT) Naveen Glore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.5 version in my server. Now if i install qmail from the ports, i guess it will install the latest version and do you think i will have some kind of problem with it. Do i need to

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:29:32 -0500 Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:02:22AM -0700 or thereabouts, Chris Pressey wrote: ...except for some FreeBSD-specific info :) Here are some tips: 1) FreeBSD uses a MTA wrapper which makes your mailer *look* like

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-30 Thread Gary
Hi Chris, --On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:03:33 AM -0700 Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since qmail has a sendmail wrapper to begin with, as noted above, and it is put in as a replacement (marking the original to sendmail.old), in/usr/lib/sendmail, and /usr/sbin/sendmail why would

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-30 Thread Gary
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:26:06AM -0700 or thereabouts, Chris Pressey wrote: Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I was referring to running a MUA that does not use the Sendmail switch automatically, as Mutt would use, but something like KMail, or whatever, which requires one to put

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-30 Thread Naveen Glore
Hello, I will start going through lifewithqmail.org. Would like to clear few more things: In mailserver I think the messages will be stored in var/mail/accountname (correct me if i am wrong). I have very less disk space for /var. This was not a concern with POP3 because messages get deleted from

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-30 Thread Julien Gabel
Hello, I will start going through lifewithqmail.org. Would like to clear few more things: In mailserver I think the messages will be stored in var/mail/accountname (correct me if i am wrong). I have very less disk space for /var. This was not a concern with POP3 because messages get deleted

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-30 Thread Gary
Hi Naveen, --On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:42:00 PM -0700 Naveen Glore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In mailserver I think the messages will be stored in var/mail/accountname (correct me if i am wrong). I have very less disk space for /var. This was not a concern with POP3 because messages get

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-29 Thread lists
Its not necessarily a link to a conversion how-to. But I just switched from vpopmail to courier-imap using the following link: http://www.high5.net/howto/ Beauty of it is, that you dont have to give up pop3 (if you have remote users using it like I do), but you can support both types at once.

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-29 Thread Gary
--On Monday, September 29, 2003 01:25:46 PM -0700 Naveen Glore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a freeBSD server. Currently I am using POP3 server with MS outlook as mail client. I would like to change POP3 to IMAP so that i can have a centralized email system. They are two separate protocols.

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-29 Thread Naveen Glore
Hello, Currently I am using sendmail MTA. I heard that sendmail is not very secured. Do i need to switch to qmail before going for IMAP? Thanks, Naveen. Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Monday, September 29, 2003 01:25:46 PM -0700 Naveen Glore wrote: I have a freeBSD server. Currently I

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-29 Thread Gary
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:23:13PM -0700 or thereabouts, Naveen Glore wrote: Currently I am using sendmail MTA. I heard that sendmail is not very secured. Do i need to switch to qmail before going for IMAP? Now you are opening up a can of worms g Like the VI versus emacs war, which is better.

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-29 Thread Chris Pressey
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:44:31 -0500 Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I build mail servers for others, I choose qmail. BTW, I build them from source, not from the ports... The ports seem to have several patches in there which most people do not need. FYI, I think the patches you are referring

Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

2003-09-29 Thread Gary
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 04:54:59PM -0700 or thereabouts, Chris Pressey wrote: Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I choose qmail. BTW, I build them from source, not from the ports... The ports seem to have several patches in there which most people do not need. FYI, I think the patches you