Re: [sniffer] MDaemon Opinion OT

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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 ----- From: Jorge Asch To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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