On Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 Nathan Mills wrote:
> In a POP scenario, there's not
> really any issue with something like that, but not so with IMAP. In
> the clients that stay connected, the users notice because their mail
> clients tell them that they got disconnected from the server, which
> will still happen with your theoretical fake dbmail daemon.

Not if it's a built-in feature of dbmail, to just switch to maintenance 
mode without any breakdown. For POP it's clear to me, just answer OK to 
USER,PASS and 0 to LIST, that looks like no new e-mail arrived.
I'm not sure about IMAP, I don't speak that protocol so can't tell what 
to do in order to "fake" functionality. Maybe "IDLE" or "BUSY" or 
something?

> Now, if you're an ISP that only offers POP service, why not just whip
> up a little perl script that pretends to be a POP server that you run
> when you take dbmail offline?

We're IMAP also, otherwise I wouldn't care... ;-)

mfg zmi
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