POP3 to home server, IMAP to computers on int. network

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Hi,

At home I have a Windows 2000 Server machine that serves my internet connection. Connected to my network are several XP machines, and one Mac OS X machine.

I use e-mail provided by the webhost that I pay for. I can connect to this using POP3 (which I do at present), and IMAP.

My current way of collecting e-mails is using POP3. I use Thunderbird on both Windows and MacOSX computers, which connects to a folder on my Win2k Server box where I store the e-mails. This allows me see all my e-mails from any computer I chose to use.

Thunderbird is a nice e-mail client for Windows, however on MacOSX it is a port, not a natively coded MacOSX client and therefore, isn't as speedy as I would like. However I must use Thunderbird on both the PC and MacOSX so that I can read from both platforms.

I would like to setup an IMAP service on my Win2k Server box so that I can use any e-mail client I chose (Apples Mail client in this case). I would need some software to sit on my Win2k Server that would connect by POP3 and download e-mails from my webhost. Then I can connect to my server by IMAP and pick them up, all the time leaving the e-mails on my Win2k Server.

Does anyone know of any software I can get that would this for me?

I know people like to offer alternative suggestions to what I would like, but this is the only method I am interested in. So suggestions to try something else, would fall on deaf ears (such as connecting to my webhost using IMAP, which is a no go as I do not want to leave e-mails on their servers).

Thanks in advance.

Stu
 
stuppy said:
So suggestions to try something else, would fall on deaf ears (such as connecting to my webhost using IMAP, which is a no go as I do not want to leave e-mails on their servers).

Read the thread dear ;)

That 602Suite looked promising but it doesn't offer an IMAP service. It will download POP3 on my server then allow me to connect to the server via POP3 to collect my e-mails. Which removes them from the server. That isn't want I wanted.

Thanks for the suggestion though (unless i am being blind and missing the IMAP function).
 
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