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- by Tobias Schlitt
- Wed, 19 Nov 2008
- 23:29:46 +0100
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Switched to IMAP
True, it's done.
I completly switched from local mail storage using POP3 deliverage to remote storage using IMAP4. I wanted to have that done for nearly 2 years now, but allways feared the effort. But during this 2 years I slowly got nearer and nearer to IMAP. First the switch from Win32 to Linux, then switching from Evolution to Thunderbird. And lately I just had to upload my mbox files to my server and the greatest effort was done.
After cleaning my mailbox (which was the greatest effort) I uploaded round 500 MB of mails. The cleaning was worth to purge about 50000 mails.
Now I can watch my whole mail storage from all over the world. I use uw-imapd (delivered by Debian) for the storage/fetching and procmail (with Postfix) for automatic sorting in folders.
Pretty nice! :)
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pardini
Nice move. I've done the same, a few months ago; now we have the benefit of procmail, and of using sa-learn in a cron job...
Link to commentNorbert Mocsnik
Toby, aren't you afraid of security approaches? I'd like to change to IMAP too but I'm afraid someone else will read my mails and there are business mails too..
Link to commentAfaik you've got a notebook. Why IMAP on a server hanging on the net all the time instead of installing the mail software to your nb?
Toby
That's indeed a risk to think about. In my case there are mostly private mails in there, but for business critical stuff, I don't know, if I would switch it.
Link to commentAnyway, if you host your mail locale there is a risk on getting cracked, too. So, harden your server and be fine with it. :)