[TriLUG] IMAP - Nested folders

[Paul G. Szabady]

Thank you, All!

I found that the problem was with the mailbox format.  I need to be using
"maildir" and not "mbox" format, which UW IMAP doesn't support according
to http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/MailboxFormats.  I'm familiar with
dovecot because I use it at home, so I decided to try it rather than learn
courier.   Has anyone had experience with dovecot in a production
environment?  Like Josh, we're not really using it for inbound email
traffic.  As a matter of fact, the server won't be running any smtp
service at all.  We're testing to see if we can use IMAP as a "mail
archival tool" on a central server, not in exchange, and move archiving
away fronm desktop .pst files.

-- 
Paul
@ Thy Service

> I just did this for my company.  Originally I went with Courier-IMAP and
setup virtual shared folders and virtual users pulled from LDAP, but due
to some issues with IMAP NAMESPACE Outlook 2003 refused to see any
shared folders.  The individual inboxes worked fine, and I had a script
that would create those from LDAP.  Since Outlook is the
> primary client, I ended up switching to Cyrus IMAP, again
> authenticating against LDAP.  Cyrus works fine with Outlook, and users
are able to create folders, move folders, and transfer messages
> between them.
>
> As a bonus, with Cyrus, I found that I did not have to create INBOX
folders for users, which helped this projects, since the only use for
this IMAP server is shared folders.  I haven't finished yet, but Cyrus
IMAP and and Outlook 2003/XP seem to be getting along fine and dandy.
>
> Cyrus also works find with Thunderbird, but Thunderbird complains
everytime you log in if an INBOX folder does not exist.  Since the Cyrus
admin client is actually a Perl module, it should be simple to create
inboxes from the LDAP tree, but I have not yet done this.
>
>
>
> On 12/9/05, Jeff Groves <jgroves at krenim.org> wrote:
>> I ran into the same limitation with Outlook.  And it is an Outlook
problem -- not an IMAP problem.
>> I wound-up importing my Outlook email into Thunderbird locally and then
moving folders instead of futzing around with Outlook any more.
Outlook's support for IMAP is poor.  An example of it's poor support is
that it does not put sent email in the sent folder on the IMAP server.
It still sticks it in the local Sent folder.  I would have to move the
contents of my local Sent folder to the IMAP server on a regular basis.
I'm sure there's some rule you could set up to do this automatically,
but feh, I'll use Thunderbird instead.
>> Jeff G.
>> Paul G. Szabady wrote:
>> >Greetings,
>> >
>> >At work we have a desire to move all users from .pst files on the
>> desktop
>> >to a central IMAP server.  I have set up a test (WU) IMAP server on
RHEL3-U6 for this project.  I'm able to create folders (a.k.a. files),
move email from exchange and .pst files to my imap folder(s), but the
standard email clients we use (Outlook on PCs and soon to be Entourage
>> on
>> >OS X) do not have the ability to create folders as directories, which
>> of
>> >course will allow for additional nested folders.
>> >
>> >On the other hand, I can log into the imap server and create as many
directories and sub directories as I want (probably a limit somewhere,
>> but
>> >I haven't reached it).  I can then use Outlook to subscribe to these
folders and I'm off and running.  Unfortunately, very few of our 1500+
users will want to do this, even if they knew how to do it.
>> >
>> >Ideally, we'd like the user to be able to drag an individual email or
>> an
>> >entire folder hierarchy from either the exchange server or the local
>> .pst
>> >file(s) to the IMAP server.
>> >
>> >Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?  Maybe a different IMAP
server
>> >would act differently?
>> >
>> >
>> >
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