Am 12.02.2012 20:01, schrieb Steve Campbell:
Actually, I'm having problems with pop and imap.
I changed mailservers this weekend, going from a Centos 3 box to a Centos 6 box. The Centos 3 box used the old standard imap and pop servers. We use horde for our webmail. The pop3 mailboxes (mbox) were in /var/spool/mail and the imap folders were in /home/user/mail, which horde took care of.
So 2 classes of users? As John has annotated, mixing POP3 and IMP4 use is not advised at all.
Upon starting the Centos 6 box, I ran into tons of login and viewing problems. I tried Cyrus for imap, could log in, but couldn't see mail in the imap folders. Using dovecot for pop, I eventually could get logged in, but kept getting the "couldn't open INBOX" message, so no one could download their email, even though sendmail was delivering it properly.
Cyrus-IMAPd is out of the game unless you do a real mail store migration as Cyrus-IMAPd uses his own storage scheme.
So here's my question:
Can (should) dovecot be used for both imap and pop when considering the above setup of mbox in /var/spool/mail and imap folders in ~/mail? Horde will read the mbox to display new messages in it's screens.
Yes.
If so, does anyone have a pretty good link to how to make dovecot function using the old Centos pop/imap scheme? Should I try and convert the old mbox files to another format or destination to make this work?
See http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation
Thanks for any help. It's been a long night, going on about 14 hours now and I'm just getting the old server back to current until I figure this out.
Not intended to sound smart ass, but changing a production system the way you do without prior testing isn't that clever.
steve campbell
I wish you success.
Alexander