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Dan Egli wrote: |
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> On 4/6/2021 10:41 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>> I've done some research. It seems Dovecot is what I need. It uses mbox |
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>> and has some features I might need one day already where Courier doesn't |
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>> but there isn't much difference really. If anyone is curious, the |
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>> comparison is here. |
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mail_servers |
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>> The biggest thing, mbox. If I recall correctly that is what Seamonkey |
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>> uses and I should be able to import those easy enough. It at least |
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>> gives me a head start. Since this is a whole new deal, going to start a |
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>> new thread if nobody pops up and says nooooooo to Dovecot. I found a |
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>> guide here: |
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> Seamonkey is a web browser. Therefore, mbox vs maildir is meaningless |
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> to it. All it knows it it talks to the imap server and the imap server |
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> replies and sends a message. |
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> Having said that, AVOID mbox like the plague! It is only a matter of |
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> time before mbox mail files get corrupted. Maildir is INFINITELY |
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> safer. And in the event of corruption in maildir, you loose ONLY the |
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> corrupted messages. Corrupt your mbox file and you're likely to loose |
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> the whole folder! |
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> As far as moving from one to another, both mbox and maildir are |
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> standards. So if imap server X and Y both use Maildir, then swapping |
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> between them is easy, and POINTLESS, due to the fact that imap |
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> maintains the files on your server. So, if you move to a different |
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> mail CLIENT (thunderbird for example) then the new client only needs |
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> to take the time to re-download the messages from the server. It's the |
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> same way webmail and a client can work together. Neither is doing the |
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> actual work with the files. Each is only sending commands to a |
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> separate server program to work with the files. |
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>> http://www.wikigentoo.ksiezyc.pl/Dovecot.htm |
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>> So far, it is Gentoo based. I found another one but it is Ubuntu |
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>> based. May work but commands are different. Trying to go by a Gentoo |
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>> based one. If anyone has a better one, please share links. |
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>> May start new thread in a day or so if no one shouts nooooo. |
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> Consider this the shout. I can't stop you from using mbox, but I can |
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> shout at the top of my lungs that it's a BAD IDEA. And I can say over |
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> and over that changing your imap SERVER will have ZERO impact on what |
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> Seamonkey does. The only exception would be if you have a mail server |
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> (original or new) that doesn't fully follow the imap protocol. And in |
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> that case, who knows what the change will do. |
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I looked, Dovecot can use either mbox or maildir. Can Dovecot convert |
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those to or must I use a different tool? |
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To anyone using Dovecot, just what all had to be installed? This is |
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what emerge gives me right now. |
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root@fireball / # emerge -av dovecot |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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[ebuild N ] acct-group/dovecot-0-r1::gentoo 0 KiB |
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[ebuild N ] acct-group/dovenull-0-r1::gentoo 0 KiB |
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[ebuild N ] acct-user/dovecot-0-r1::gentoo 0 KiB |
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[ebuild N ] acct-user/dovenull-0-r1::gentoo 0 KiB |
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[ebuild N ] net-mail/dovecot-2.3.13-r100::gentoo USE="bzip2 ipv6 |
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lzma mysql pam sqlite tcpd zlib -argon2 -caps -doc -kerberos -ldap |
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(-libressl) -lua -lucene -lz4 -managesieve -postgres -rpc (-selinux) |
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-sieve -solr -static-libs -suid -textcat -unwind -zstd" |
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LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1 -lua5-2 -lua5-3" 7,282 KiB |
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Total: 5 packages (5 new), Size of downloads: 7,282 KiB |
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Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] |
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I suspect I need to install some other packages to make certain things |
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work. Then again, maybe they already installed?? Some may recall that |
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cron jobs sent emails so it has to have packages installed for that. |
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The guide I linked to elsewhere has USE flags not listed above. It may |
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be out of date. It does say not to use it for older 1.* versions of |
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Dovecot tho. Just trying to see what I'm getting into here. I think |
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this is a really good idea but want to see how deep the water is before |
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jumping in. I can't swim, well, I do, like a lead rock. :/ |
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Thanks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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