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AW: Mercury32 and IMAP - Setting Up

Rolf

 

This sounds just the ticket. I'll look forward to buying the new release. Thanks for the response.

 

Duncan

<p>Rolf</p><p> </p><p>This sounds just the ticket. I'll look forward to buying the new release. Thanks for the response. </p><p> </p><p>Duncan </p>

I am having a few issues setting up Mercury and IMAP. For many years we have used Mercury and Pegasus to handle our mail. Mercury is set up with modules S, C and D and runs on its own server. We have a Novel netware network and every user has their own copy of Pegasus installed on their PC. We have a reasonable number of public folders defined, which are stored on our shared drive, and accessible by all users. To be clear, they are not on the mailserver's local drive.  Everything works beautifully, no issues.

We haven't been using IMAP at all to date. But we wanted to set up the facility to pick up, respond to and save mail from outside the building via smartphones etc. We have configured our firewall to allow access for IMAP traffic and have added Module I to our Mercury setup. We can login remotely using IMAP and the native mail client on Samsung galaxy to imap.ourdomain.com and see new mail, but we can't see any of our public folders. My questions are should we be able to or have I misunderstood the functionality of IMAP? If not, is there anything we can do to make them accessible or to set up an alternative shared folder system that would be visible? 

 Many thanks for any help.

 

Duncan

<p>I am having a few issues setting up Mercury and IMAP. For many years we have used Mercury and Pegasus to handle our mail. Mercury is set up with modules S, C and D and runs on its own server. We have a Novel netware network and every user has their own copy of Pegasus installed on their PC. We have a reasonable number of public folders defined, which are stored on our shared drive, and accessible by all users. To be clear, they are not on the mailserver's local drive.  Everything works beautifully, no issues. </p><p>We haven't been using IMAP at all to date. But we wanted to set up the facility to pick up, respond to and save mail from outside the building via smartphones etc. We have configured our firewall to allow access for IMAP traffic and have added Module I to our Mercury setup. We can login remotely using IMAP and the native mail client on Samsung galaxy to imap.ourdomain.com and see new mail, but we can't see any of our public folders. My questions are should we be able to or have I misunderstood the functionality of IMAP? If not, is there anything we can do to make them accessible or to set up an alternative shared folder system that would be visible?  </p><p> Many thanks for any help.</p><p> </p><p>Duncan </p>

[quote user="duncane"]We can login remotely using IMAP and the native mail client on Samsung galaxy to imap.ourdomain.com and see new mail, but we can't see any of our public folders. My questions are should we be able to or have I misunderstood the functionality of IMAP?[/quote]

You can't see any public folders. IMAP is an access protocol to your mailbox on the server (which in case of Mercury and Pegasus with Bindery/NDS-Module is the same like in Homedirectory of user). The publix folders are not in that mailbox.

I'm sorry -  I think you have to rethink your methods for corresponding related to public folders.

bye    Olaf

 

<p>[quote user="duncane"]We can login remotely using IMAP and the native mail client on Samsung galaxy to imap.ourdomain.com and see new mail, but we can't see any of our public folders. My questions are should we be able to or have I misunderstood the functionality of IMAP?[/quote]</p><p>You can't see any public folders. IMAP is an access protocol to your mailbox on the server (which in case of Mercury and Pegasus with Bindery/NDS-Module is the same like in Homedirectory of user). The publix folders are not in that mailbox. </p><p>I'm sorry -  I think you have to rethink your methods for corresponding related to public folders.</p><p>bye    Olaf</p><p> </p>

Olaf

 Thanks for the clarification. I had guessed asmuch but wanted to be sure. I appreciate the really fast response.

 Best regards

 Duncan

 

<p>Olaf</p><p> Thanks for the clarification. I had guessed asmuch but wanted to be sure. I appreciate the really fast response.</p><p> Best regards</p><p> Duncan </p><p> </p>

True, in the current version of Mercury public folders can't be shared via IMAP. The new mailstore, that will be introduced in v5 of Mercury, will offer new possibilities though, and David informs me that one of them is to "map" public folders into the regular folder space of

any user.
True, in the current version of Mercury public folders can't be shared via IMAP. The new mailstore, that will be introduced in v5 of Mercury, will offer new possibilities though, and David informs me that one of them is to <span style="font-size: 10pt;">"map" public folders into the regular folder space of</span> <div>any user.</div>

[quote user="Rolf Lindby"]The new mailstore, that will be introduced in v5 of Mercury, will offer new possibilities though, and David informs me that one of them is to "map" public folders into the regular folder space of

any user.[/quote]
 
*wow* - in another world (not mine) there would be a button [LIKE] [:)]
 
But if the public folders are mapped with IMAP into the personal mailbox, that doesn't work for me. Don't worry - it's because of special circumstances: our users do have central mailboxes at university level - at faculty level we run Mercury with Novell NDS-Module due to history and some special features. So our users do (inofficial) have a mailbox on Mercury, but Mercury bounces all incoming mails (if there were any) to their university mailbox. They don't realy use their "local" mailboxes at the faculty.
 
So I would prefer an option to offer the public folders known with Pegasus as if they were a separated IMAP-Mailbox. Perhaps by an option on user basis disabling the display / access of / to their personal mailbox via IMAP.
 
bye    Olaf
 
[quote user="Rolf Lindby"]The new mailstore, that will be introduced in v5 of Mercury, will offer new possibilities though, and David informs me that one of them is to <span style="font-size: 10pt;">"map" public folders into the regular folder space of</span> <div>any user.[/quote]</div><div> </div><div>*wow* - in another world (not mine) there would be a button [LIKE] [:)]</div><div> </div><div>But if the public folders are mapped with IMAP into the personal mailbox, that doesn't work for me. Don't worry - it's because of special circumstances: our users do have central mailboxes at university level - at faculty level we run Mercury with Novell NDS-Module due to history and some special features. So our users do (inofficial) have a mailbox on Mercury, but Mercury bounces all incoming mails (if there were any) to their university mailbox. They don't realy use their "local" mailboxes at the faculty.</div><div> </div><div>So I would prefer an option to offer the public folders known with Pegasus as if they were a separated IMAP-Mailbox. Perhaps by an option <b>on user basis</b> disabling the display / access of / to their personal mailbox via IMAP.</div><div> </div><div>bye    Olaf</div><div> </div>
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