Migrating from qmail server, invalid option "o" in dsync

Justin Coleman jmcoleman at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 23:47:26 EEST 2020


I'll give this a shot. Any solution that doesn't maintain at least the
current client-side status of emails (ie, requires redownload, or new
account on client) is a complete nonstarter, though.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 3:51 PM John Stoffel <john at stoffel.org> wrote:

>
> Justin> Maybe I'm misunderstanding - all of our clients use pop3
> Justin> (thunderbird and eudora). Do pop3 and imap overlap somehow, or
> Justin> does the server use IMAP internally regardless of the client
> Justin> protocol settings?
>
> No, IMAP and POP are just the transport mechanisms.  But POP is old
> and doesn't keep state well.  If you can, upgrade all your clients to
> IMAP, thunderbird will be easy to do so, and I suspect Eudora will be
> as well, but I haven't touched it in years.
>
> why don't you just setup a test IMAP account and try a client?
>
>
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