Solved: Re: cannot retrieve mail in desktop client

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 12:56 +0800, JonL wrote:
> Finally,  I have it fixed!!!
> 
> What I had to do to resolve this problem was:
> 1) make sure mail was in the postfix group
> 2) I added "1" to
> lmtpunix      cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=1
> 
> Thanks everyone for your assistance.
> 
> Couple of question however,
> a) since this is a SLES 10 SP1 server and I plan to move to SP4 soon, is 
> there a rpm for the cyrus-imapd 2.4.9? and to upgrade it manually, if there 
> is no cyrus-imapd rpm, the instructions seems very vague are there any good 
> step-by-step instructions.
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use Simon's rpm's (invoca.ch)
http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/cyrus-imapd/
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> b) is there a way to get the mail from an old outlook.pst file into this 
> system?
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once you get outlook connected to IMAP server account, open the old
outlook.pst file and drag the mail to wherever you want it to be on the
IMAP server - this is pretty basic usage.

Craig


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