Topic: Installing IMAP

[Steven]

Hi guys

I'm retty sure this has been requested before, but searching for IMAP doesn't provide me with what I want.
I want to set up an Exchange sort of server that holds all my clients email, address book etc. so that they can access it no matter what machine they log on to. Ideally I also want them to have a "global" address book that I can add and remove email addresses, so that I don't have to do it on each machine.
I'm pretty sure IMAP or ACAP can do this, but I can't find any howtos to install or configure it.

Please let me know if you have done this, or know how to.

Thanks

[Matt Quelch]

Hi Steve,

I seem to remember IMAP is an option when you first install SME. It is nice and easy to setup but be careful which client you use, I would advise getting your users to use webmail, as pretty much everything else has problems conforming to the IMAP standard. I use Outlook, and it has problems, but my users don;t like webmail, doh!

I have the same problem, and have all but given up on the global address book. I couldn't get ACAP to work, and tried using LDAP, and that was closest to what I needed, so that may be worth a look.

HTH
MattSteven wrote:

[Maggard]

Steven wrote:
>
> Hi guys
>
> I'm retty sure this has been requested before, but searching
> for IMAP doesn't provide me with what I want.

Keep searching then, you're right this is oft-discussed, there's even a current thread. Search on "exchange", "address book", "outlook" etc. Don't forget to go back further then 30 fdays.

> I want to set up an Exchange sort of server that holds all my
> clients email, address book etc. so that they can access it
> no matter what machine they log on to. Ideally I also want
> them to have a "global" address book that I can add and
> remove email addresses, so that I don't have to do it on each
> machine.
> I'm pretty sure IMAP or ACAP can do this, but I can't find
> any howtos to install or configure it.

It can be semi-done but not via IMAP or ACAP and not without compromises. Again use the search function, go back more then 30 days, other keys to search on are "horde" & "phpgroupware".

[Steve Bush]

We needed a corporate address book that could be changed frequently.  I didn't like the way MS Outlook interacted with an LDAP server, so I decided to find a workaround.

Here's what I did:

I created a PST file on my PC that I keep up to date with all our user information/email addresses.  I then added a Personal Address Book (PAB) file (corporate.pab) in the View>Email Accounts menu.
I had outlook store the files in c:\LoginScriptMaster.
From the address book, I selected all contacts and right clicked>add to personal address book
This populated the PAB file with all the names from the PST contacts file.
I copied the files to an ibay on the network and modified the login script to copy the files down from the network to the c:\loginscript directory. (I used a freeware DOS sync app).

I then manually added the PAB to each PC using corporate.pab in the c:\loginscript directory (View>Email Accounts menu)

I then went into Tools>Address Book, then Tools>Options and made the following changes:
"Show this address list first": Corporate Contacts
"Keep personal addresses in": Contacts. (no change)
"When sending mail, check names using these address lists in the following order": Corporate Contacts on top, Contacts underneath it

Now I can make changes to the corporate.pab file that is in my c:\LoginScriptMaster directory, copy it to the server(s) ibay and it will be replicated down to each of my client pc's when they login to the network.

It's not as simple as having it in the users IMAP folders, but it's working.

[Brian Hand]

Use Twiggi - It works perfectly