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