Re: imp

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes <mario@curiango.ipen.br>]

Hi Matthew,



On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Matthew Thompson wrote:

> 
> The only thing I'm wondering about now is whether to switch from qpopper
> over to an IMAP-based mail system.  Part of the reason for this is that
> IMP still wants to display IMAP as the default Server, even though I
> changed the value in defaults.php3.in to 'pop3' & '110' (port) and ran
> update-imp.  I also want users to have access to their mail folders, which
> I believe becomes possible with an IMAP-based system, correct?
> 
> Are there any issues to consider when converting from POP3 to IMAP?  Any
> recommendations as to which package is easiest to set up for a small
> system? (fewer than 20 users)  Anything else to consider? Anyone? Bueller?
> ;)

The system I setup is using IMAP; I didn't receive any complains from my
users, so I assume it's working fine. Most of them use webmail as well
as pine (when locally logged in). I'm using imap (4.7-7) and didn't have
troubles with it. 

HTH

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