Comments on: Moving to Mac OS X: from Thunderbird to Apple Mail

By: Daniel Rall

Daniel Rall — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:24:42 +0000

Brett, I've got DarwinPorts as well, and since I also want to use dovecot only over the loopback interface (I'm sync'ing with another dovecot server using offlineimap), I too wanted to disable SSL. I was able to do so by removing "imaps" and "pop3s" from the "protocols" setting, and adding "ssl_disable = yes".

I ran into another problem after I got the server up and running, where I couldn't login. I was able to fix it via:

<blockquote><pre>
passdb pam {
args = login
}
</pre></blockquote>

This uses a PAM module which recognizes my Unix login name. Not sure if this is the perfectly Correct solution, but it Works For Me.

I'm on Mac OS X 10.4.

By: Archimedes Trajano

Archimedes Trajano — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:18:47 +0000

I actually moved from offline email to GMail 90% exclusively (at least for my personal e-mail accounts)

I have things set up so that all POP accounts get forwarded to my Gmail account (even those with Yahoo and Hotmail).

The only thing I have is a POP client on my local PC for offline backup in case I am away from the net. Gmail also provides you with an SMTP server which records your submissions to your GMail account as well.

I usually use my Yahoo email ID as a sacrificial lamb for spam bait, but the nice part about the forwarding is I get the benefit of two spam filters (Yahoo and GMail).

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:33:58 +0000

i forgot to add:
especially posting all your config files and launch/startup scripts would be very very helpfull!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:32:40 +0000

Dear Brett,

this could indead become a very nice tutorial on howto setup some kind of free & opensource home kerio mailserver replacement. maybe its already a tutorial for the pros, but i didn’t get trough it. dovecot is running, but not accepting any connections. it would be really cool if you could give me some hints or maybe even cook up a full featured tutorial (hint: googling for dovecot + osx brings you here, so probably many many people out there would be very happy)
kind regards & greetings,

Dave

By: chris

chris — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:33:13 +0000

Eudora Mailbox Cleaner

imports thunderbird into Mail, easy and fast.

By: Torsten Curdt

Torsten Curdt — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:56:34 +0000

I made the switch to Mail.app and I regret it. So many times this darn thing just crashed, hung or refused to pick up mails properly. I know it works fine if you don't have that much mail ...and it seems that POP works ok ...but with IMAP it's just a so bad that I spend quite some time building Thunderbird trunk myself with preliminary Addressbook support.

http://vafer.org/blog/tag/thunderbird

Was so hoping for the patch to be scheduled for TB 2.0...