If your a ISP I can see that this is not the anwers your looking for: But if your a compagny you may adopt this policy. Thats what we did and nobody is complanning.
Tell your users that you have a new service "the webmail". Give them a quota and let them create folders on the mail server. They can keep using pop3 if they want but that will empty theire inbox. We use horde/imp with dbmail,mysql,postfix,spammassassin,fprot....etc on a dual pentium server with raid 5 disk. We have 2000 users using netscape 4.7 and Microsoft outlook with pop3 after 3 mounts 25% are using the webmail. Being a school board we had to configure all those 2000 accounts in 70 buildings (schools). In september we will support only the webmail. And thanks to the webmail theachers and personnels will be abel to read their mails from any of the 4000 PCs in the school board. And with https from the internet. No more netscape no more outlook to support. Bien à vous Jacques Beaudoin Agent d'administration Les services des technologies de l'information et des communications Commission scolaire de la Pointe de l'Île Montréal, Québec, Canada Selon "\"Robert Andersson\"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > My experience with dbmail is limited; I have toyed around with it and it > seems good. I really like what I've seen so far. However, I am planning to > deploy dbmail for a service that has some special requirements, which I am > curious to get comments about. > > I want to be able to allow a client to empty his account through POP3, yet > leaving the messages available through webmail (IMAP). Perhaps also having a > rule that automatically deletes messages that has been fetch through POP3 > when they reach a certain age or disk space. > > How to implementing this has bugged me a while, and I've considered using > parallell accounts and sending copies, or copy to another IMAP folder, etc, > but it becomes too messy. > > One (hacky, although simple) way to make dbmail support this would be to add > a message flag, eg. "fetched_pop3_flag". This would be ignored by everything > except the POP3 daemon, which would set this flag instead of deleting > fetched messages, and ignore messages with this flag set. It would then be > easy to make a script that delete these message by some arbitrary rule. > > If dbmail worked the way described above, it would solve my problem. > However, I doubt making such changes is the ideal method; I used it as an > example of the result I need. > > Does anyone have better ideas how to configure dbmail to support this? Is a > change in dbmail itself thinkable in order to support such configurations? > > Thanks for listening. > > Regards, > Robert Andersson > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >
