I can see how it may be difficult to notify thousands of users. But in reality even my most challenged users have the sub box retrieval setup.
If they got the first POP account setup it is not a stretch to get the second one setup also. Ultimately it is your decision what features you tell your user base about. This could be a great alternative for those users that find it annoying to have to check web mail or stress your resources by allowing IMAP. Kevin Bilbee > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kathy J > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Inbound rules / SPAM feature enhancement > request > > > Being in the position of the person who posed this question, explaining to > thousands of users that they have to now set up another pop account is > rather difficult. I have however seen more success with IMAP rather than > Pop for this purpose. > > I basically tell those who refuse the below suggestion to use > webmail once a > week to clean that box or their account will become Maxed and > they will not > receive emails. That usually scares them into compliance of some sort. > > If a user does not want Spam filtering at all I just create a rule that > moves all mail going to that person to main and have the domain > process that > rule before the spamrules. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin Bilbee > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Inbound rules / SPAM feature > enhancement request > > Some one correct me if I am wrong but POP users should be able to > check the > spam box by ettting up another POP account using > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and using their normail password. This > is how Imail pop users can access sub folders/mail boxes. > > Then they can download the mail directly to their PC and process it with a > client side filter to move all mail from that account to a special folder. > > > Kevin Bilbee > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Technical > > Support - Swift Systems Inc > > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:10 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [IMail Forum] Inbound rules / SPAM feature enhancement request > > > > > > We are a fast growing ISP and we use IMAIL for our hosted and broadband > > customers. We also sell IMAIL to many of our customers for > standalone or > > dedicated box systems. Lately, many of our users are complaining > > about the > > "spambox" feature. If we delete suspect email, they don't like > > that either > > so we have been trying to think of a good go-between. POP users > > don't have > > a way to check the spambox easily... > > > > I would like to see subject modification be offered for inbound rules. > > Thus, for suspect email, you could modify the subject to be > preceded with > > "[Probable SPAM]", or something like that. Then, client software rules > > could be setup for POP users and satisfaction would increase greatly. > > > > Thanks, > > ~Vaughn > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Travis Rabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:58 PM > > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Invalid final delivery userid > > > > > > > Maybe they have an e-mail address with a - or a . in it and it is also > > used > > > as the mailbox delimiter? I am not sure if that would cause > a problem, > > but > > > maybes. > > > > > > Travis > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of E. Shanbrom > > > (Ipswitch) > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:51 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Invalid final delivery userid > > > > > > What do the SMTP logs show for this aborted delivery. IMail > saves to the > > > sent folder by send the message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Eric S > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Douglas Hardison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:51 AM > > > Subject: [IMail Forum] Invalid final delivery userid > > > > > > > > > > Recently, I've started receiving complaints from a few > customers using > > > > our web interface. They are receiving messages from the > > postmaster when > > > > sending emails. > > > > The email does go out, but they receive an email from the postmaster > > > > stating "Invalid final delivery userid: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > ( hercules.bbnp.com being the name of our mail server). > > > > > > > > After logging into a couple of the problem accounts, I see that they > > > > have their preferences set to "save a copy of outgoing email to sent > > > > items folder". I assume that would account for the -Sent > being tacked > > > > on to their email. > > > > > > > > We are using Imail 8.05 with the Killer Webmail templates on Windows > > 2000. > > > > As far as I know this only started happening a few days ago. > > > > I haven't recently changed anything on the server. > > > > For the domain, I have Sub-mailbox creation set to "Create". > > > > > > > > Any ideas what might be happening, and how i can fix it? > > > > Pointers to documentation, etc... are welcome. > > > > I've searched Ipswitch's Knowledge base but didn't find anything > > > > in particular that helped. > > > > > > > > Douglas Hardison > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > > > List Archive: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
