On Monday, February 19, 2001 03:24:57 PM +0100 Marco Pirovano
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| 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 fetchmail 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 ?
Possible, yes but not desireable. If it was me and I really had to do it, I
would create a custom MDA script but I think that that is a bad solution.
Take the system down for a few hours and convert all mailboxes, my guess is
that you can convert several mailboxes per second.
/Michael
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