IMAP questions

[Lincoln Peters]

I have a server running Red Hat Linux 7.1 with sendmail and imap (whatever 
shipped with Red Hat 7.1).  It has worked almost right out of the box (I had 
to re-enable imap in /etc/xinetd.d/imap, but everything else was 
pre-configured), and I have had no problems using it.

I can't guarantee that it's secure (I'm on a protected LAN and haven't 
needed to worry about internal security).  You should probably stick with 
qmail, and the imap service should still work as long as qmail still uses 
/var/spool/mail to store incoming mail.  I don't know if the imap service 
itself has any security holes, though.
As for the clients, I have successfully used the IMAP service on systems 
running MS Outlook Express, Netscape Mail, and Mozilla Mail.  There are 
countless others that I haven't tried, but should work just fine.

If you want to use secure imap, just enable imaps on the server instead of 
imap (usually under /etc/xinetd.d).  Most e-mail clients support secure IMAP 
and secure POP, so you shouldn't have any problems there.

I've never tried to set up web-based e-mail, but someone else here can 
probably help you with that.


>From: Sebastian Mindling <list at mindling.com>
>Reply-To: <talk at nblug.org>
>To: talk at nblug.org
>Subject: IMAP questions
>Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:29:27 -0700
>
>Hi all, trolling for input from anyone with IMAP experience.
>
>My company currently uses the ancient MSMail postoffice system and
>Windows Messaging clients for internal email. (please keep the
>snickering to a dull roar :) It has actually worked admirably for the
>past six years, and provided all the functionality we needed with regard
>to email groups, etc. for internal mail. For internet mail I run a
>redhat-qmail server, and the WM client has a pop client service that
>talks without too many hiccups.
>
>But now it's time to change. Good old WM has trouble with more and more
>attachments, doesn't handle MIME well, among other issues. But the big
>issue is external access to email. So I'm looking at IMAP, and wondering
>what the group here recommends for servers and clients. Linux platform
>is required, and open-source is preferable, although I won't mind paying
>for the right package. We have <100 users. I will definitely need to set
>up a web-based mail client (webmail?), and most likely will need client
>software for internal use (on NT4 clients). Personally, I use Becky on
>the PC side (http://rimarts.co.jp/becky) and it does IMAP. But I think
>she's a bit much for general consumption here, and would like something
>a bit simpler for the user. If I can find a good web-based client, I may
>be able to forego the local client software altogether.
>
>Any ideas/suggestions?
>Thanks,
>seb
>_________________________________________________________
>Sebastian Mindling
>


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