So today I migrated my mail server. Fun, fun, fun. (Not.)

I got totally fed up with not being able to connect to the uw-imapd-ssl server I've been trying to use (since, after all, I'm using it on the old machine just fine). So after reviewing the options listed at debian-administration.org, I decided to install dovecot.

Surprisingly, setup was really quite simple. I just changed one line in the config file and issued the command sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot start, and I was up and running.

Of course, I need to copy my old mailboxes (which have tons of saved messages, of course) to the new server, but I've got that process running in the background as I write this.