Using a remote mail account in Kolab

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Alexander Schröter <webmaster at computational-chemistry.org>:

> Hi I have been thinking about this idea. And I really think that  
> this would fix
> all my current problems. Maybe I am totally wrong in the way I think  
> that this
> is possible but the idea itself makes total sense to me.
>
> Is it possible to tell kolab not to safe the mails at
> /kolab/var/imapd/spool/domain/<d>/<domainname>/<u>/user/<username> but to use
> an imap account at a remote destination? As far as I understand this  
> should be
> very similar to having the mails at a slave server.
>

Having several IMAP servers is okay but nothing to solve on the side  
of the server but on the side of the client you are using.

Cheers,

Gunnar

> This way I would have all my mails at my ISP and don't need to worry about
> uptime, backup etc but would still have all the benefits of having the mails
> "in" the kolab system.
>
> For example when I use webmail, the sent mail is saved at my ISP this way I
> have those in backup too. Compared to the imapsync this would be much better.
>
> I really hope someone here can help me.
> Thanks a lot.
>
> On Friday 03 July 2009 11:02:58 pm Alexander Schröter wrote:
>> Hi I would like to tell kolab to not use the local account on my server but
>> use a remote account at my ISP. Is there a way to do this?
>>
>> If possible on a per user base. I thought that there might be some program
>> that creates a folder from an imap account. Then I could simply point that
>> imap account to my users local account.
>>
>> I hope I am making sense.
>> Thanks in advanced. Alexander
>>
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