Topic: can SME server do this?

[kweb]

Hi, I couldn't seem to find these answers on the faq/docs so here goes.

I have an existing handbuilt centos+courier+postfix+ldap+amavis installation that working fine, but maintainence is quite time intensive and I was looking to switch.

I was wondering if SME supports any of this :
- Can i import existing courier mail dirs into SME?
- can i import existing ldap users into sme?
- can SME do :
  - mailforwarding
  - list manager
  - address lookup from thunderbird/outlook
  - can I plugin squirrelmail (I'm guessing if its just imap-ssl I should be good)
- is there a live cd version of this/ or has any one tried this on vmware to test?
- does sme support failover to another SME machine?

thanks
kw

[kweb]

I'm also curious, why the SME server community doesn't host a IRC chat on freenode, i've logged into the online chat section a couple of times and i've never seen anyone online there.

any answers to my questions greatly appreciated..

[gregswallow]

I'm also curious, why the SME server community doesn't host a IRC chat on freenode, i've logged into the online chat section a couple of times and i've never seen anyone online there.

 I'd rather have people discussing SME on Mailing lists and forums, which are searchable, IRC isn't.  I wouldn't mind if we ax'd the chat applet in favour of IRC.  If you or someone wants to set that up, please email staff@contribs to discuss.  

There are some imap server to server migration scripts - I haven't used this, but looks like what you need - http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/

Please have a look at the old manual for SME6 - link on the documentation page (no SME7 manual yet) - and search the forums and mailing lists and I think you'll find most of the rest of the answers you are looking for.  

I think you'll like SME7.  It might be a bit of getting used to coming from a linux background - especially the fact that SME does everything most people need without having to use the command line.  Be sure to check out all the options in the server-manager.