uw-imap from FC1 works on FC2

Rick Johnson rjohnson at medata.com
Mon May 17 22:39:13 UTC 2004


Will Backman wrote:
> Just a note for those of you who don't want to change mail server
> software just yet...
> It looks as though the RPM for uw-imap from FC1 works on FC2. (At least
> imap does, didn't try pop3) Perhaps this rpm can be submitted to
> fedora.us as a starting point.
> It is only version 2002d plus patches, and the current version is 2004,
> but this might help us out until I (or anyone else) can rebuild from the
> FC1 spec file.
> 
> Does this sound like crazy talk?

Somewhat - Dovecot (the new default) out of the box supports mbox. Only 
minor changes are required to transition from uw-imap to Dovecot. One 
may be the client mail prefix (which can be fixed in the config to 
behave similarly to uw-imap), and the other being the migration of the 
.mailboxes file to .subscriptions (to manage client mailbox subscriptions).

In the end, it's not a difficult migration if you're handy with scripts, 
and doing such a migration opens the door for many other nifty upgrades 
such as moving from mbox to maildir (to allow simultaneous mailbox 
access, etc.). The biggest benefit, however, is the performance increase 
your users will notice since dovecot indexes messages externally.

HTH,
-Rick

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