----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 3:38
AM
Subject: Re: [sniffer] MDaemon Opinion
OT
One thing to consider before making the Imail
-> MDaemon jump (or similar mailservers) ... When I evaluated
MDaemon, I noticed that messages are stored in individual .msg files inside
the user's mailbox directory. Imail stores the mail in a common
mailbox.mbx file. If your users store their mail on the server
(webmail/imap/pop3 on server), you would have to migrate these messages
over. I've yet to see a utility
built for parsing a mailbox.mbx file into multiple mail.txt files,
though I'm sure one could be made relatively easily in
java/perl/whatever.
I asked MDaemon support about possible import
tools, and they suggested using a pop retrieval program on the individual
mailboxes. Unfortunately that solution falls short in a few areas for
us.
1. For a large number of mailboxes, that
can become time consuming.
2. It's limited to only being able to
download a user's inbox.mbx, leaving their sent items, drafts, and
other imap folders behind.
3. MDaemon does not support direct mail to
a user's submailbox (Imail's equivalent of a mailbox delimiter). I was
hoping that I could directly query [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which I
can) and have Bob's Sent.mbx redirected automatically to a Sent folder on the
MDaemon server ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
No such luck.
Please understand that this was something that we
anticipated would cause issues with our migration. All of this may
be a nonissue for you if your users are emptying their mailboxes
regularly. This behavior was noted on General Download/Release
7.20. I've got no clue what later/beta versions can or cannot
do.
Good luck!
John
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 3:57
PM
Subject: Re: [sniffer] MDaemon Opinion
OT
Also does anyone know if MDaemon has a way
users can modify their spam settings independent of a global policy or
administrator set rules. It would be nice to let our users that
complain about false positive lower their spam setting and those that
complain about anything getting through the spam
filters.
Not at the moment. This is on the Wishlist
(per-user settings), and hopefully we will see it next year.
The
plugins is available as we speak, I've been using it for 16 hours with
minimal problems (an inconsistency with the headers). Pete posted the link
on the md-beta forum last night and asked for feedback.
If you don't
have access to the md-beta mailing list, then Pete might publish the link
here as well later (he is working on some fixes right now). Be aware that
you need to run the latest MD beta to run the plugin (7.50d). If you're not
comfortable running beta software, the release date for MD 7.50 (final) is
on February 1st, 2005. Until then, using the MD beta release is the only way
to use the plugin.
--
Jorge Asch Revilla
CONEXION DCR
www.conexion.co.cr
800-CONEXION
