You could use something like fetchmail to move mail from one server to
another before exposing it to webmail, but without choosing to move it
explicitly most (all?) webmail programs will leave it on the server they are
pointing at whether they are using IMAP or POP3 calls on the backend. We
use Inside Systems Mail
(
http://www.insidesystems.net/projects/project.php?projectid=4) on our
servers and it will handle both IMAP and POP3 retrieval. Some quick script
hacking should let you transfer a person's mail to a secondary server when
they login. As for db user admin, the backend for storing settings, etc is
modularized and currently has support for xml, encrypted xml, and
posgresql - there are instructions included for extending it to new backends
if you really need mysql.
-David Powers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fernando Sanchez" <fsanchez@???>
To: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 11:40 AM
Subject: [Exim] OT: setting up webmail server
> Hello all,
>
> First I know this might be off topic but I don't know where else I could
> search for advice about it.
>
> I want to set up a server which only porpuse is to be a webmail server.
> There are a lot of webmail servers to use, the problem is that most of
> them use IMAP. I already have most of the clients running POP3 on their
> own clients. The main reason I don't want to use IMAP is that I don't
> want users mail to be kept on my mail server, I would preffer it to be
> moved to the webmail server once download (like pop3 does). I've also
> been thinking on set up a MySQL db to admin users. So my question is,
> has anybody ever set a system like this? which packets would u recomend
> for such distribution? Am I clear on how IMAP works, in the fact that
> mail is always stored on the server or could it be retrieved to be
> stored somewhere else?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
>
>
> Fernando Sanchez
> Dpto. Sistemas USFQ
>
>
>
>
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