Switching from POP to IMAP by setting up my own mail server?

Switching from POP to IMAP by setting up my own mail server? Until now I accessed my emails from several email accounts with POP instead of IMAP, mainly because my providers have very limited web space. I would like to change that and wonder what is the best solution.
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"Gmail has a very nice ability to check for your pop accounts and send email through your own smtp settings. It will however always show something like ""from:you@gmail.com as you@yourpreviousadress.com"" in the header of some more advanced email clients (like Outlook).

If you can handle setting up your own email server, go for it, but it will be hard and costly to achieve the same uptime and quality of service Gmail does. If you have your own domain, I highly recommend using the Google Apps service so you get the quality of Gmail, but with your own email address."