On May 26, 2005 02:58 am, Chris Andrews wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a non-profit using squirelmail on my server. It's a good > organization and I don't charge them anything. > > However, in the last few years, this non-profit has grown > tremendously. And so has the size of their mailboxes. They've got some > huge ones now. It's putting quite a strain on my server, and they are > complaining about slowness. > > I've tried the suggestions in the 'performance' faq, they didn't help. I > think it's this darn mbox mail format my server uses that is really the > problem.
Switching to a different imap server would help with that. Courier-imap and Cyrus-imap are both better at handing large mailboxes. It does take some work to tune them, though. I prefer Courier-imap because it is a bit easier to setup (IMO) and the smtp server I use can deliver directly to the courier-imap mail-store (Maildir). > So.... I need to get this organizations mail off my server. They want to > use Outlook. So that's what we're gonna do. > > Downloading all their emails into Outlook is a pretty simple thing. Just > enter the appropriate info into Outlook and connect up. > > However... all the mail, the In folder, Sent folder and any other folders > they have created, all downloads into the Outlook Inbox. > > Is there a way that I can migrate their email into Outlook and direct mail > to the correct Outlook folder/box? I had to do this at a previous organization I worked for. What we did was to setup an IMAP client in Outlook and copy the folders one at a time to the local instance in Outlook. If you want, you can then remove the IMAP account configuration and setup a POP3 account in Outlook to download new mail. Honestly, switching IMAP server software might be better. > Thank you for any assistance you can provide :) You are welcome. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
