On Mar 18, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Stroller wrote: >> Am I overlooking anything? > > What I found complicated was wrapping my head around the other mail > transport layers. You don't need to worry about SMTP / Postfix / > sendmail, because Entourage / Mail.app on your Mac can talk directly > to your ISP's mailserver. but when you've finished installing your > IMAP server you'll want some way of getting mail from the mailboxes > you have with your ISP to your IMAP inbox. I use fetchmail for this - > it can be told to call maildrop for message-filtering. You'll probably > find yourself reading a few manpages. Actually I've been using sendmail and later Postfix and bypassing my ISP for outgoing mail for years, but I hadn't thought of that in relation to IMAP. I'm more concerned that I'll go through the whole setup process only to find out that Entourage, or whatever other mail client I end up using, doesn't give me the capabilities with IMAP mail that it has with internally stored mail downloaded via POP. I finally did get some responses on the other list yesterday that seemed to indicate that I wouldn't have the same flexibility because of lack of metadata in IMAP unless I cached the mail in Entourage, which would defeat the whole purpose of setting up IMAP. Sorry for the ignorance, but I've never had an IMAP account so I have no clear idea of what its limitations may be. Thanks, Michael -- <http://globalocal.blogspot.com/> The government doesn't want you to know... e-mail doesn't work. At all. It's a scientific impossibility.