Using External IMAP Server

[Kevin Landers]

@Paul: Ok, so you just retrieve a copy of your mail from the external 
server to the internal server? You then delete the original mail on the 
external server?

@Jason: Thanks for the clarification on the SMTP server, sounds like 
that portion will work.

Paul Douglas Franklin of Yakima UGM wrote:
> Kevin,
> I believe I have seen a setting for the outgoing mail to be passed 
> through the existing server from Kolab, but that's not how I do it.  On 
> my computers at home, I have the SMTP set up to send directly to our 
> server here at work.
> Concerning allowing your mobile users to access the existing IMAP 
> server, I don't know.
> --Paul
>
> Kevin Landers wrote:
>   
>> Paul,
>>
>> That is correct. Our company has servers in a co-location facility. 
>> Those servers house all our email/web sites, etc. I host my church's 
>> email/web from that server.
>>
>> I suppose querying the email server and retrieving the mail as you 
>> mention would be fine for our purposes.
>>
>> Could outgoing mail also be passed through the existing server from 
>> kolab?
>>
>> I guess what I would like to see in the end result is that when a user 
>> is mobile (ie, out of the office) they could still use their existing 
>> IMAP/SMTP account on the public server with all of their email still 
>> being available to them. So my question/thought was whether kolab 
>> could use an external IMAP server other than cyrus or be able to sync 
>> two IMAP servers (kolab's and the external which happens to be 
>> qmail-imap).
>>
>> Otherwise, they would have to connect back to the church which would 
>> be a horrid experience due to the DSL connection and other issues with 
>> the location.
>>
>> Hope this makes sense. Sorry, typing in a rush.
>>
>> Kevin L.
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