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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
:Revision: 		1
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa


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Switched to IMAP
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:Description:
    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.

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 at Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:51:07 +0200

  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...

- Norbert Mocsnik at Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:24:24 +0200

  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..

  Afaik 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 at Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:44:39 +0200

  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. 

  Anyway, if you host your mail locale there is a risk on getting cracked,
  too. So, harden your server and be fine with it. :)