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. 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. 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. 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? 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. steve campbell
On 02/12/12 11:01 AM, Steve Campbell wrote:> 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.mixing pop and imap is contradictory. pop clients move the messages to a local store, clearing them from the server. imap clients maintain the message folders on the server. pick one, stick with it. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast
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 campbellI wish you success. Alexander