What's the best way to implement IMAP on a WHM/CPanel server? Any guides or how-to's, please post. :)

We're going to be installing IMAP on a CPanel/WHM server in a couple of weeks... if no one replies by then I can let you know how it went.

Someone ever said to me that implement IMAP on a WHM/CPanel will make POP3 not work normal. CMIIW ;)

it does appear to be an issue. We have a customer requesting it, but to date haven't found a solution that's acceptable.

Greg Moore

I can remember trying this about a year ago and getting nowhere.
If customers need it we set up their mail on our WIndows servers which support it.

I think it will be one of these things we need to wait on Darkorb to build into the system.

Gordon

We're doing something similar -- for customers who need IMAP, we move mail.theirdomain.com to our spare Ensim server, which fully supports IMAP.

But it's very annoying.

I think i just installed the rpms for it, and the customer was happy with it.

Hello - I installed courier-imap on my server - although I am not using CPanel/WHM. However, it seems very configurable. It just starts-up several daemons (the exact number is according to your config), authenticates using the authentication system you choose, then simply connects the user to their maildir. Again, while I am not familiar with CPanel/WHM - I cannot see why having a stand alone daemon which reads a user's maildir should be a problem.

Originally posted by SplashHost.com
I think i just installed the rpms for it, and the customer was happy with it.
How about their POP3? Can work together with IMAP?:rolleyes:

Its already been stated at the Cpanel forums that imap isnt going to be included in cpanel any time soon

Nick

Originally posted by SplashHost.com
I think i just installed the rpms for it, and the customer was happy with it.

Do you happen to have a link to the RPMs you used? We're looking for them for RedHat 7.1.

What do people use IMAP for? Why don't they just use POP3? What programs use IMAP? I'm not really too familiar with IMAP since I've never had a use for it, so perhaps someone can enlighten me.

Originally posted by ToastyX
What do people use IMAP for? Why don't they just use POP3? What programs use IMAP? I'm not really too familiar with IMAP since I've never had a use for it, so perhaps someone can enlighten me.

IMAP is supposed to be a replacement for POP3. The main difference is that mail is stored on the server, instead of on a local computer. This can be extremely useful, especially if you are accessing email from different locations.

Most email programs, including Outlook, support IMAP in addition to POP3.

I think i got them of rpmfind, the user was an advanced user who was reading his mail from the command prompt and was probably able to get around any problems with it.

IMAP is not a replacement for POP3. IMAP is just another protocol with it's advantages and disadvantages.

Originally posted by Shyne
IMAP is not a replacement for POP3. IMAP is just another protocol with it's advantages and disadvantages.

No it isn't, but from what I have read in the past it was originally supposed to be a replacement over time. Which is precisely what I said. :)

Originally posted by SplashHost.com
I think i got them of rpmfind, the user was an advanced user who was reading his mail from the command prompt and was probably able to get around any problems with it.

Whether you're accessing IMAP from the command prompt or normally shouldn't really make any difference.

Anyway I found the following on rpmfind, which appears to be the correct build for RedHat 7.1 on a P4:

http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/7.1/i386/imap-2000-9.i386.html

Just a bit worried that it might break POP3 as it says "IMAP andPOP3 deamons are included".

Installed it from the RPM installer now, just for the fun of it. But when I start it (./imapd&), it seems to run fine for a moment, but then when someone connects gets killed off.