Re: moving mail to imap

2003-08-01 Thread Jason Chambers
On 31 Jul 23:03, Ross Boylan wrote: > I'm just switching to IMAP, so I'll toss in a few observations. > > I decided to try Cyrus, mostly because it seemed mention more often > than others on the exim lists, and it was mentioned as integrating > very easily with exim. I've found that to be the cas

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-31 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm just switching to IMAP, so I'll toss in a few observations. I decided to try Cyrus, mostly because it seemed mention more often than others on the exim lists, and it was mentioned as integrating very easily with exim. I've found that to be the case. Also, while reading imap mailing lists try

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-31 Thread Juri Haberland
Andy Saxena wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:13:21PM +0200, Juri Haberland wrote: >> >> It is said that the server with the most features is Cyrus-IMAPd, which >> is quite hard to istall and to configure. > > I have cyrus server running for personal use, and I am by no means an > admin. One o

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-30 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:13:21PM +0200, Juri Haberland wrote: > > It is said that the server with the most features is Cyrus-IMAPd, which > is quite hard to istall and to configure. I have cyrus server running for personal use, and I am by no means an admin. One of the bigger differences betwe

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:18:51PM +0100, Craig Tinson wrote: > Hey all.. >=20 > I use mozilla mail for my email.. and (at the moment) I have about > 15,000 emails

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 12:07, Craig Tinson wrote: > Does imap support folders/sub-folders/sub-sub-folder setups? > > I've tried making a folder under the imap connection.. but then it > doesn't let me create a sub-folder under the newly created folder.. is > that right? No that is wrong. Courier-

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-29 Thread Juri Haberland
Craig Tinson wrote: >>UW-IMAP (the one you're currently using) stores it's mail in a plain mbox >>file. It is slow, doesn't scale and eats lot of memory if you have >>mailboxes > 50 MB (actually it seems to load it completely into memory). >>So having 10 users each with a mailbox size of 100MB (qu

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-29 Thread Craig Tinson
ouch.. 1GB mem?? okies..definately will look at courier then.. don't want to screw up the server (it only has 512Mb ram!!) actually.. there's only me that uses imap on the server.. but thats not the point.. I want to move over 15,000 (over 200mb) msgs to it so don't want to screw it up... than

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-29 Thread Juri Haberland
Craig Tinson wrote: > ok.. will look into the version that is running (I didn't realise didn't > imap servers varied so radically) .. and upgrade to courier if I need to... > > which comes to another question... is courier (then) the current > standard (ie *best*) ? It is said that the server w

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-29 Thread Craig Tinson
ok.. will look into the version that is running (I didn't realise didn't imap servers varied so radically) .. and upgrade to courier if I need to... which comes to another question... is courier (then) the current standard (ie *best*) ? cheers Craig Juri Haberland wrote: Craig Tinson wrote:

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-29 Thread Juri Haberland
Craig Tinson wrote: > It's the standard imapd server that comes with RH9.. (one of our other > servers).. I'm not sure which version it is.. maybe courier? I doubt it, as I can create subfolders in folders on my Courier server. Most certainly it will be UW-IMAP, which is very limited when it come

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-29 Thread Craig Tinson
It's the standard imapd server that comes with RH9.. (one of our other servers).. I'm not sure which version it is.. maybe courier? Cheers Craig Craig Tinson wrote: Does imap support folders/sub-folders/sub-sub-folder setups? I've tried making a folder under the imap connection.. but then it

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-29 Thread Juri Haberland
Craig Tinson wrote: > Does imap support folders/sub-folders/sub-sub-folder setups? > > I've tried making a folder under the imap connection.. but then it > doesn't let me create a sub-folder under the newly created folder.. is > that right? That depends on the IMAP server. Some do, some don't.

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-29 Thread Craig Tinson
Does imap support folders/sub-folders/sub-sub-folder setups? I've tried making a folder under the imap connection.. but then it doesn't let me create a sub-folder under the newly created folder.. is that right? Cheers Kel Juri Haberland wrote: Craig Tinson wrote: Hey all.. I use mozilla

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-29 Thread Juri Haberland
Craig Tinson wrote: > Hey all.. > > I use mozilla mail for my email.. and (at the moment) I have about > 15,000 emails in my "Local Folders".. they are all in > folders/subfolders/sub-subfolders etc.. and arranged to my liking.. > > I have another server running imap.. can I just move all my exis