[imp] Migration from Squirrelmail?

[Martin Gomez]

hi josh,

we did a large migration from squirrelmail to horde imp. it was an easy
migration. the only technical problem we initially encountered was migrating
the addressbooks. this was solved when i wrote a little hack to parse the
squirrelmail addressbook files and move them to horde imp.

the little software is currently under an exclusive license to xavier school.
should you be interested to acquire it, kindly email me privately.

thanks. :)

best,
martin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: imp-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:imp-bounces at lists.horde.org] On
> Behalf Of Josh Trutwin
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 11:00 AM
> To: imp at lists.horde.org
> Subject: [imp] Migration from Squirrelmail?
>
> I have been looking through the documents out there and haven't been able to
> find anything to help with a large migration to Horde/IMP from a
> SquirrelMail environment.  Anyone have any pointers/gotchas?
>
> For virtual hosting, do I have to setup an instance of Horde/IMP on every
> single virtual host?  What I had done with SquirrelMail in the past was use
> Apache redirect to have all URLs like:
>
> http://www.virtualhost.com/webmail/ or http://mail.virtualhost.com/
>
> all redirect to:
>
> http://www.webmailhost.com/webmail/
>
> This way I only have to maintain one webmail installation for possibly 100's
> of domains.  But I notice in Imp's server.php config file:
>
> " * realm: What to append to usernames for preferences and Horde
>   * authentication to prevent login clashes on virtual host setups."
>
> " * maildomain: What to put after the @ when sending mail. i.e. if you
>   * want all mail to look like "From: max at the-triumvirate.net" set
>   * maildomain to "the-triumvirate.net". It is generally useful when
>   * the imap host is different from the mail receiving host. This will
>   * also be used to complete unqualified addresses in the compose
>   * screen."
>
> These seem to imply that I need a seperate servers.php config file for every
> virtual host.
>
> I am not entirely sure if this is a concern for me.  I use qmail/vmailmgr
> for virtual hosting and everyone's username is essentially unique because
> their username is their full email address.
>
> I really want to move to Horde/Imp as I have heard so many good things about
> it, but these two are kind of show stoppers at the moment.  My apologies if
> I missed some obvious documentation.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh