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I'm trying to move a users multiple folders (archieved email) from a Solaris UNIX system to Outlook 2003. The user accesses the mail via ELM and folder are kept on his home drive, not under /var/mail. I was told I can use either IMAP and/or POP3 to connect to the UNIX server from outlook and just move his folders. How do I do that? I have tried both IMAP and POP setup on Outlook, but can not connected to the UNIX server via Outlook .

I checked the server and found that IMAP was not installed so it appears I need an IMAP client.

Any suggestions would be appriecated.

Thanks

Ron

You need a IMAP or POP server to be running on the computer where the Unix mailboxes reside. The server must be configured to allow access to the required directory paths, obviously.

If it's a one-shot job, you might want to avoid installing anything permanently. Some really simple POP server can probably be run right from the user's home directory on a non-standard port number. I hear there's a simple POP server available for Python; I would imagine the IMAP and POP libraries available for Python and Perl would come with a simple proof-of-concept server implementation which is probably good enough for this.