[CLOSED] change from imap to courier-imap

trossachs · Veteran Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 1204 Location: London

I am curently using imap-2001a-18 to administer my mail, but I want to use courier imap instead. I have installed CI, but how do I tell the system to change over?

I am worried that if I simply remove imap-2001a-18 and have not put CI sufficinetly in place, I will lose mail. How can this best be avaoided? thx.

UberLord · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 4:04 pm Post subject:

Courier-IMAP - or IMAP in general - doesn't send mail so QED you won't loose any mail.

However, you should be able to have both installed.
Simply stop the current IMAP service and start the courier IMAP service using the scripts in /etc/init.d

teilo · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 5:44 pm Post subject:

What are you using as an MTA? It all depends on what type of delivery your MTA is doing. If you are delivering to maildir's already, then Courier-IMAP should work as a direct replacement. Keep in mind, however, that there are sometimes inconsistent naming schemes for the user's maildir directory. The default is "Maildir" but the gentoo installs have been changing this to ".maildir".

I think that IMAP-2001 is set up, by default, to access mbox format boxes. So if you are using mbox instead of maildir, keep in mind that you may have to configure your MTA to start using maildir's instead of mboxes.

If all is well, and you are using the .maildir directory already, then all you need to do is replace the IMAP daemon using rc-update.
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trossachs · Veteran Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 1204 Location: London

I'm using Postfix rather than Sendmail. And this defaults to mbox. I have yet to configure this for Maildir's hence the reason why I have been asking advice!

I will make the necessary changes and then disable imap.