Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:19:45 -0500 From: mikel <mikel@ocsinternet.com> To: Doug Young <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IMAP Message-ID: <3A3A8AF1.55D2D95C@ocsinternet.com> References: <001a01c066dd$ff4b3ba0$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
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--------------8BF4ADD16A7AE0C21C4200F2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit imap-uw is ok, and relatively easy to set up. Just rmemrber that IMAP replicates the entire mailbox contents each time you connect. On a side note do all of the email address end up on the same server? cheers, mikel Doug Young wrote: > I'd appreciate comments on the following I receive several hundred > emails per day into 7 different email accounts and I believe I need to > install some renditition of IMAP in order that Netscape will work with > multiple mail accounts. I have to date configured the LAN here so that > all email ends up in a Win2000 / Outlook Express system, mainly > because its very straightforward to configure with POP3. (yes I know > its ustable & stuffs up the formatting) The problem with Netscape, at > least to 4.7, (haven't found much real info on 6 yet) is that it > doesn't recognize more than one POP3 account & apparently the only > solution is to resort to IMAP on the local mailserver.I've looked at > both cyrus & imap-uw. Cyrus doesn't appear to be viable as its > documentation is so sparse that I haven't a clue about configuring it, > and I'm concerned about potential security issues with > imap-uw. Another alternative I considered was to run pine on the > server & access it via SSH ...... discounted that because it seems > impractical to run 7different accounts & printing anything in > Microsoft format (yes some people in industry do use that > occasionally) is a marathon effort. Are there other ways I haven't > thought of to get this sorted out ?? --------------8BF4ADD16A7AE0C21C4200F2 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> imap-uw is ok, and relatively easy to set up. Just rmemrber that IMAP replicates the entire mailbox contents each time you connect. On a side note do all of the email address end up on the same server? <p>cheers, <br>mikel <p>Doug Young wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>I'd appreciate comments on the following</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>I receive several hundred emails per day into 7 different email accounts and I believe I need to install some renditition of IMAP in order that Netscape will work with multiple mail accounts. I have to date configured the LAN here so that all email ends up in a Win2000 / Outlook Express system, mainly because its very straightforward to configure with POP3. (yes I know its ustable & stuffs up the formatting)</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>The problem with Netscape, at least to 4.7, (haven't found much real info on 6 yet) is that it doesn't recognize more than one POP3 account & apparently the only solution is to resort to IMAP on the local mailserver.</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>I've looked at both cyrus & imap-uw. Cyrus doesn't appear to be viable as its documentation is so sparse that I haven't a clue about configuring it, and I'm concerned about potential security issues with imap-uw.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Another alternative I considered was to run pine on the server & access it via SSH ...... discounted that because it seems impractical to run 7different accounts & printing anything in Microsoft format (yes some people in industry do use that occasionally) is a marathon effort.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Are there other ways I haven't thought of to get this sorted out ??</font></font> </blockquote> </body> </html> --------------8BF4ADD16A7AE0C21C4200F2-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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