Robert Moskowitz writes:
My server is moving all tagged spam into the IMAP spam folder. Very nice for the IMAP users, but not for the POP users. Of course the server don't know, and the mysql database for users does not have any flags for this. Don't want my server to fill up with spam from POP users that don't know to check via IMAP.
You can contort the virtual plugin to fuse your user's INBOX and spam box together into a virtual INBOX:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual
(See section "Virtual POP3 INBOX")This turns the problem from a delivery problem into a reading (or presentation) problem.
Seems sort of klunky though. In my opinion, your energy is better invested in converting your POP3 holdouts to IMAP.
Joseph Tam jtam.home@gmail.com
On 11/20/2014 07:55 PM, Joseph Tam wrote:
Robert Moskowitz writes:
My server is moving all tagged spam into the IMAP spam folder. Very nice for the IMAP users, but not for the POP users. Of course the server don't know, and the mysql database for users does not have any flags for this. Don't want my server to fill up with spam from POP users that don't know to check via IMAP.
You can contort the virtual plugin to fuse your user's INBOX and spam box together into a virtual INBOX:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual (See section "Virtual POP3 INBOX")This turns the problem from a delivery problem into a reading (or presentation) problem.
Seems sort of klunky though. In my opinion, your energy is better invested in converting your POP3 holdouts to IMAP.
Agreed. I am looking at what it takes to do this with Thunderbird, as I
am the biggest holdout! The recommended way is HARD. I have 20 years
and gigabytes of emails in local pop folders that I do not want to loose
or have replicated on the server. Somewhere is the magic goo for this.
Once I figure it out for myself, it will be easy for the other users.
Am 2014-11-21 um 02:21 schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
On 11/20/2014 07:55 PM, Joseph Tam wrote:
Seems sort of klunky though. In my opinion, your energy is better invested in converting your POP3 holdouts to IMAP.
Agreed. I am looking at what it takes to do this with Thunderbird, as I am the biggest holdout! The recommended way is HARD. I have 20 years and gigabytes of emails in local pop folders that I do not want to loose or have replicated on the server. Somewhere is the magic goo for this. Once I figure it out for myself, it will be easy for the other users.
It might not be that hard with Thunderbird. You have though to recreate all accounts as IMAP ones, which leaves the POP ones alone. This is most of the work.
Then, in the Profiles/...../Mail folder in the local filesystem move all POP folders below the "Local Folders" there. Then delete the POP accounts.
Likely you can even point the "archive" Folder in IMAP account settings to this new path, tick keep structure and from now on, move mails from IMAP to local with a single tap on the "a" key.
I did this years ago, so take advise with caution.
-- peter
On 11/21/2014 05:40 AM, Peter Chiochetti wrote:
Am 2014-11-21 um 02:21 schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
On 11/20/2014 07:55 PM, Joseph Tam wrote:
Seems sort of klunky though. In my opinion, your energy is better invested in converting your POP3 holdouts to IMAP.
Agreed. I am looking at what it takes to do this with Thunderbird, as I am the biggest holdout! The recommended way is HARD. I have 20 years and gigabytes of emails in local pop folders that I do not want to loose or have replicated on the server. Somewhere is the magic goo for this. Once I figure it out for myself, it will be easy for the other users.
It might not be that hard with Thunderbird. You have though to recreate all accounts as IMAP ones, which leaves the POP ones alone. This is most of the work.
Then, in the Profiles/...../Mail folder in the local filesystem move all POP folders below the "Local Folders" there. Then delete the POP accounts.
I got a response on Mozilla for help on this. Better understand 'local', 'pop user' and 'imap user' folders. After some thought, there is no reason to actually move all those folders from the pop user directory to the local directory structure. I can just disable the account. The challenge will be creating the filters. They did give me instructions on how to move the filters, and I expect if I did that, they will still point to the folders over in the old account directory structure!
Likely you can even point the "archive" Folder in IMAP account settings to this new path, tick keep structure and from now on, move mails from IMAP to local with a single tap on the "a" key.
I did this years ago, so take advise with caution.
I looked at this back when I launched my courier-mail server 4 years ago, but did not figure it out then. Plus squirelmail was not all that great compared to roundcubemail. Much better off now with the server, just need to get a 'few' nits working right. amavis-new is not properly handling the virtual domains defined by postfixadmin; I have asked for help on this in both groups, as I have tried all the examples I have found googling and none of them are working. Then I have the DNS DMARC to tackle so that google mail will be happy. Not much left. And getting more detailed logwatch reports. I think over all, I am doing OK with this move.
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Joseph Tam
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