On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:46, Fernando Sanchez wrote:
> Ron McKeating wrote:
> > We are planning to move from courier to cyrus imap. Has anybody any
> > experience of this, especially with regard to users who had lots of exim
> > filters set up. These will no longer work under cyrus.
> I've never used any of the two cyrus nor courier, but I don't think exim
> filters would have any problem. Filters work for SMTP while the other
> two are IMAP servers, SMTP is in charge of sending mail from MTA to MTA,
> while IMAP is only responsable for storing users mailboxes. Filters will
> work when a message arravives via SMTP, and then, if the filter says it
> has to store or deliver the mail to the user, exim will pass to the IMAP
> server, so I don't think you would have problems there
>
Sadly it is not that simple. With cyrus exim does not have access to the
folders where the email lives so it cannot put the email into the folder
specified by the users exim filter. Exim can only pass the email onto
cyrus. So any users who previously had a .mailfilter file to filter
their email into separate folders will find it does not work when we
switch to cyrus. Cyrus uses sieve for filtering and I need to convert
the exim filters into sieve filters.
I am talking about user exim filters here, not system filters.
Ron
> >
> > Appreciate if anybody has been there then get in touch.
> >
> > Ron
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> > Ron McKeating
> > Senior IT Services Specialist
> > Internet Services and Software Solutions
> > Loughborough University
> > 01509 222329
> >
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Ron McKeating
Senior IT Services Specialist
Internet Services and Software Solutions
Loughborough University
01509 222329
