Hello!

In this email you can find a configuration primer for a Migration from UW IMAP with pine, Thunderbird and squirrelmail as client. For compatibility the mbox format is used.

A description for pine with imap acces without entering any password is also discussed. Please use dovecot 1.0beta1 or later for correct handling with pine.

Short overview of Mail folders:

                | Used             | elm             | pine             |   Thunderbird                 | squirrelmail | UW imapd | dovecot  |

Base directoy | ~/Mail | ~/Mail | ~/mail | as configured | mail | | | Sent Folder | ~/Mail/sent | ~/Mail/sent | ~/mail/sent-mail | Sent | Sent | | | Trash Folder | ~/Mail/Trash | | - | Trash | Trash | | | Drafts Folder | ~/Mail/Drafts | | saved-messages | Drafts | Drafts | | | Templates | ~/Mail/Templates | | | Templates | | | | Unsent Folder | wie Thunderbird | | | Local Folders/Unsent Messages | | | | Postponed | | | postponed-msgs | | | | | Canceled Mail | | ~/Canceled.mail | ~/dead.letter | | | | | Personal namespace | | | | | | | | Public namespace | | | | | | #news | | Other Users | | | | | | | |

pine setup:

SETUP(S)/collectionLists(L)/Mail Just add the following to Server: localhost/notls

Before: Nickname : Mail Server : Path : Mail/ View :

After: Nickname : Mail Server : localhost/notls Path : Mail/ View :

In ~/.pinerc modify the following configuration parameters: mail-check-interval=15 rsh-open-timeout=30000 rsh-path= rsh-command=/usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap # For large Mailboxes tcp-read-warning-timeout=180

For details have a look at: http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/ssh/ch11_03.htm http://www.cs.unc.edu/cgi-bin/howto?howto=pine-imap http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/ http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/docs/pine/pine-imap.html

Migration from UW Imapd to dovecot:

Disable UW Imapd in xinetd

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration

Migrate Mailboxes: http://wiki.dovecot.org/uw2dovecot.sh or cd $USER cp .mailboxlist .subscriptions

dovecot configuration: Config (/etc/dovecot.conf): UW Imapd compatible protocols = imaps

default_mail_env = mbox:~:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

mail_full_filesystem_access = yes

mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = fcntl

mbox_lazy_writes=no

Self signed Certificate for SSL: cd /etc/pki/dovecot/private openssl genrsa -out dovecot.pem 2048 openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha1 -days 3650 -key dovecot.pem >../dovecot.pem Enter the data for the certificate

http://sial.org/howto/openssl/self-signed/

dovecot debugging:

Config (/etc/dovecot.conf): #GW: mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap Directory ~/dovecot.rawlog must exist and the input/output will be logged there

For ethereal debugging use the following dovecot configuration: Sniffing: #GW: protocols = imap imaps

#GW: disable_plaintext_auth = no

maildir/mbox documentation:

http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=fw&db=man&fname=/usr/freeware/catman/u_man/cat5/mbox.Z http://people.redhat.com/rkeech/maildir-migration.txt

squirrelmail:

$use_imap_tls = true; $imapPort = 993; $imap_server_type ='dovecot'; $optional_delimiter = 'detect'; $force_username_lowercase = true;

$default_folder_prefix = '~/Mail/'; $sent_folder = 'sent'; $show_prefix_option = false; $show_contain_subfolders_option = false;

Thunderbird Plugins

With imap Folder the Xpunge plugin is very usefull to have consitent mailboxes.

Xpunge https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=thunderbird&category=Top%20Rated&numpg=10&id=1279 http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~tegos/mozilla/tb/

Hope is helps.

Feedback is welcome.

Ciao, Gerhard