Dear Michael and Simon,
thank you for your answer.
At 02:47 PM 2/19/01 +0100, you wrote:
>On Monday, February 19, 2001 12:01:19 PM +0100 Marco Pirovano
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>| Hello,
>| I have to migrate about 12,000 students from a POP3 view to a IMAP view.
>| Both POP3 server and IMAP server reside on the same machine.
>| Now they use Eudora as POP3 client, and in the future they will use a
>| webmail program, probably IMP.
>|
>| I've two big questions:
>|
>| 1) For a not short time, we will have both POP3 and IMAP users,
>| so how can I configure sendmail to manage this situation ?
>| We run sendmail 8.11.2 and procmail 3.15.
>
>As cyrus supports both imap and pop3 this isn't really a problem, just use
>formail and deliver to copy the mail from the usual mailboxes into cyrus,
>you users can continue using pop3 until the webmail comes online.
>Configuring sendmail to use deliver or lmtp isn't particularly hard.
Now, I use fectmail to move mail from /var/mail/user to imap users INBOX
folders.
but, I can't use it for a great number of users.
Is it possible to configure sendmail so, POP3 users mail still goes into
/var/mail/user
and IMAP mail goes into INBOX folders ?
>The
>biggest problem is the time it takes to convert 12000 mailboxes but I guess
>that you are planning to do the change this summer when traffic is low.
Of sure !
>| 2) Is there a way to convert Eudora mailboxes to IMAP folders ?
>
>No idea I'm afraid.
>
>/Michael
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Universita' Bocconi
Area Sistemi Informatici e Telematici
Via Balilla, 18 20136 Milano - Italy
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: +39 02 5836.3173 Fax: +39 02 5836.3160
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