Unreading Squirelmail

[tlchost]

A client normally reads his email using squirelmail. He then used Eudora to look at his mail locally....and had it set to leave mail on the server.

He no longer sees his old mail in squirelmail.

Is there anyway to reset things so he can see his old email via squirelmail?

Thanks

Thom

 

[daveyw]

Easy thing should be use IMAP in your email client (eurdora), since Squirrelmail is IMAP too you can check/reply/send email with your email client and webmail.

 

[tlchost]

Easy thing should be use IMAP in your email client (eurdora), since Squirrelmail is IMAP too you can check/reply/send email with your email client and webmail.

I was trying to restore the squirelmail for him to allow viewing his old mail via the web when he is not at his office.

Thom

 

[floyd]

If he is using pop3 to download his email then it is probably deleting it from the server also. He can create an imap account in Eudora and copy mail back to the server if he wants to.

I am not sure how Eudora works but what I have done in the past with mine is first stop the pop3 account in my client from downloading email. Then create an imap account in my client. Then copy all the mail from the pop3 account in my client to the imap account in my client which copies it to the server. A webmail client running on the server can then see the mail again. The mail will probably be seen as unread at that point as well.

But this is something the user has to do themselves.

 

[tlchost]

If he is using pop3 to download his email then it is probably deleting it from the server also.

Eudora is set to leave mail on the server until it is trashed locally....

Thanks
Thom

 

[nobaloney]

Thom,

Using a shell login, check your client's mailboxes on the server, to see if the mail is still there. Unless something is broken, then the mail has probably been deleted.

But if the mail is there, simply delete all the files which begin with dovecot or Dovecot in the various mailboxes on your server, and the server will recreate them and let your client see the emails, the next time he logs in.

Jeff