On (19/01/06 17:06), Ropetin wrote: > I hope I'm asking this question in the right place. If not please let > me know where to go. > > I work for a fairly small company who, like a lot of companies, relies > heavily on email. For reasons that unfortunately I had no decision in, > and cannot contractually change in the next two years, we are tied into > using a POP3 email service. The server has great uptime and great > throughput, so no worries there. However, it has very little (read: > none!) disk space reserved for email. This causes us to have to set a > server storage limit of no more than 20Mb for each user. This is > suitable for most people, but those of us in the IT department and our > mobile users would be better served by an IMAP server with larger > amounts of storage. > > I'd like to then setup an IMAP server on another machine, with more > storage, and have it pull email from the regular POP server and make it > available to a limited number of users. It will be hosted inside our > network, with no outside access, except through already configured > remote means. > > What software do I need to use to make this happen? I've read about a > number of different pieces of software but can't figure out what would > be best. I don't want you to walk me through it step by step, just > point me in the right direction and give me a push!
We had the same requirement, pulling in via pop3 and accessing via IMAP. We used dovecot. I made some notes on the setup here: http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk/selfhelp/MailServer.html Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
