Hello,
Please have a look at the cyrus imap-server. This will be a good addition to
exim to get the imap-part running. It is also using seperate files with a
common cyrus/mail user/group.
Best regards,
Christoph
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Todd Jagger [SMTP:tjagger@???]
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 12. Dezember 2000 05:24
> An: exim-users@???
> Betreff: [Exim] Replacing Netscape Messaging w/ Exim and mailbox
> format questions
>
> Hello,
>
> I am in the position of migrating our company's mail server from
> Netscape Messaging Server to Exim. And I'm very glad to be doing
> so. :-) No prob in switching out the MTA and the user accounts, but
> I'm befuddled with trying to deal with the existing mailboxes for the
> accounts so the users don't lose all their mail, and their imap
> accounts still work.
>
> NMS uses some sort of maildir format by creating mailboxes in
> /var/spool/mailbox/${local_part}/inbox. Within the mailboxes each
> message is a separate file. IMAP users can create mailboxes anywhere
> within the main $local_part directory. The mailboxes are not owned by
> the user but by the mta user account and nobody as the group. I'm
> having a hard time getting Exim to duplicate this behavior, and maybe
> it can't, I dunno. Maybe that's a less than desirable configuration in
> the first place and it would be better to do something else while I'm
> under the hood.
>
> Has anyone done a migration from Messaging Server to Exim that could
> give me some pointers for transition?
>
> IF it's not possible to preserve the existing mailbox structure for the
> users and I have to choose a different format; which would be the best
> choice for general pop and imap serving of a couple thousand mail
> accounts? I realize this is almost like asking unix vs. nt or some
> other subjective holy war. I read with much interest last month's
> thread "Washington mbx again". And I understand all have their
> strengths and weaknesses. I'd just like to make a good decision for
> performance and ease of use and maintenance. Philip and others, what
> do you like and why?
>
> Thanks for any help provided.
>
> Happy holidays,
> Todd
>
>
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