IMAP questions

[fish]

In an IT mood today after having spent the mourning sorting out e-mail where we have had our domain spoofed and I was getting hundreds of can't deliver mail messages.....Why do they bother.

Anyhow we currently use POP3 and workgroup mail but I'm thinksing of using IMAP. How do I transfer peoples existing structure in local folders into the IMAP folders so they won't know any difference when they come back in.

[_DJ_]

fish said:

In an IT mood today after having spent the mourning sorting out e-mail where we have had our domain spoofed and I was getting hundreds of can't deliver mail messages.....Why do they bother. Anyhow we currently use POP3 and workgroup mail but I'm thinksing of using IMAP. How do I transfer peoples existing structure in local folders into the IMAP folders so they won't know any difference when they come back in.

Reading between the lines, you usually use POP3 and do not leave messages on the server and you would like to move to IMAP where you just access messages on your server directly?

So, you would like to know how to move everyone's downloaded mail back onto the server?

If you're planning to reconfigure each client manually, and you're using something like Outlook Express, this should simply be a case of setting up the IMAP account, dragging and dropping messages between the local copy and the IMAP server then removing the POP account afterwards, I think!

Obviously, don't download your POP messages after you've uploaded them again though!

[fish]

Tried doing that while it will let me drop messages I would have to create the whole folder structure form scatch the drop each folder contents in.

Is there any freeware etc which will do an import operation on then?

[_DJ_]

fish said:

Tried doing that while it will let me drop messages I would have to create the whole folder structure form scatch the drop each folder contents in. Is there any freeware etc which will do an import operation on then?

Are you sure you can't drag and drop folders?
Failing that, I'm sure there must be a way to do this within Outlook/Outlook Express. If not, I'll work out a way if I get 10 minutes over the weekend...

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[fish]

Don't worry I've bagged the idea as I've tried it and I don't like IMAP. The POP3 clients will stay but you can set them to leave a message on the server and the webmail will pick that up. If I can ever get the bloomin firwalls set up right....