Comments on: Apple Mail in Tiger can kiss it

By: Jason Fesler

Jason Fesler — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:08:08 +0000

>I also confirmed that Tigerâs DHCP client makes D-Link crappy ârouterâ
>reboot when requesting an IP addressâ¦ Ugly thing IMO.

The default computer name Apple picks, causes a buffer overflow on the d-link.
Reliably. :-( You can change the name under Prefs -> Sharing.

By: Nico

Nico — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:21:11 +0000

So, yesterday evening I went to my friend’s place with my old crappy notebook.

$ sudo apt-get install dovecot-imap $ sudo vi /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

I said I wanted IMAP in a Maildir in the home directory (see /usr/share/doc/dovecot-*).

$ sudo invoke-rc.d dovecot stop && sudo invoke-rc.d dovecot start

Voila! IMAP server installed, configured and running.

I setup Outlook with the new Account and drag/dropped the emails to the notebook.

I setup Mail.App on the Mac with the new IMAP account, drag/drop…

Back to the notebook:

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge dovecot-imap dovecot-common $ rm -r ~/Maildir

I also removed the certs left behind for IMAPS, and I was done !

Total migration time: 20mn for many hundreds of emails in many folders.

No traces left anywhere. No pain.

I also confirmed that Tiger’s DHCP client makes D-Link crappy “router” reboot when requesting an IP address… Ugly thing IMO.

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By: Nico

Nico — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:02:37 +0000

$ sudo apt-get install courier-imap

and you will be about done ;o)

As seeing me on the Planet, I’m just a reader and Debian user…

By: Barry Hawkins

Barry Hawkins — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:52:13 +0000

Nico, thanks for the information! I will be getting up to speed on running my own IMAP as my servers come along. See you on the Planet ;-).

By: Nico

Nico — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:33:23 +0000

Using dovecot-imap, you can choose mbox or maildir as the format on the server.

By: Nico

Nico — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:28:45 +0000

I am pretty dumb, if you find an IMAP daemon for OS X, you do not even need another machine…

By: Nico

Nico — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:19:35 +0000

Hmmm…

Why spend $25 on some software exploiting desperation, when a simple solution (at least for a person touching Debian) may be at hand, using standards?

Does Apple Mail support IMAP servers ?

If yes, install a temporary IMAP4rev1 server on a spare machine I am sure you must have, create an account on Apple Mail, then drag&drop all your email in that account.

Bam ! All email available for any other Email client supporting IMAP4!

And most IMAP daemons actually use Maildirs, so your server will also most probably have a nice Maildir directory full of your emails somewhere.

This is how I deal with legacy stuff, like big fat M$ Outlook .pst files. I’m going to help a friend tonight (Outlook to Apple Mail, heh!) tonight, with a P2 400 MHz / 128 MB RAM notebook and Courier-IMAP.

Nico