Erik Kangas, Ph.D. wrote: > > > Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote: > > > > > > > > You can f.ex synchronize your folders between various workstations. Which > > > > you can't with POP. > > > > > > YES you are right _folders_. BUT the orginal poster wanted only the > > > INBOX to be available to the users. They should not be able to create > > > other folders. And I say that only having a writeable INBOX (via imap) > > > does only bring confusion to the users. Mildly put that's "non-sense". > > > > You missunderstand - you can synchronize _locations_. I can copy a message > > from my inbox at home to the inbox at my provider and from there to the > > inbox at work and vice versa. Which is useful, since the mail is > > following you then and not the other way round. And since you can automate > > that quite nicely you don't even have to spend any attention on it. > > *t > > I suppose an easy way to prevent the users from making / using folders > is to make sure that they do not have write permission to their root > folder path, if that is possible given you system and user usage requirements.
This alternative I have already realized and is feasible. The only fault reside in that the user receive a "permission denied" error. It should be better if simply it would't be presented to the users the possibility of creating folders. I was carefully "listening" to the debate. Disregarding all possible "non-sense" in adopting the imap solution, nobody have yet mentioned if there are differences of performance between the imap and the pop3 alternatives, considering the UW implementation. By now, I thank all the contributions and I'm looking forward any consideration someone can do on the issue stated in the previous paragraph. Best regards. Luiz F Ewald Support and Network Division Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ For information about this mailing list, and its archives, see: http://www.washington.edu/imap/c-client-list.html ------------------------------------------------------------------
