On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:35:39AM +0100, James Wilson wrote:
> Hi ppl,
>
> I have a setup running qmail to deliver mail into the users home
> directory, and am using dot-qmail files to dump it in a selection
> of different files ($HOME/Mail/inbox-a, $HOM/Mail/inbox-b etc...)
>
> I don't want to start creating multiple users in /etc/passwd in
> order to allow multiple pop boxes per user, I'd quite like the
> ability to setup usernames and passwords that qpopper would use
> in order to access the mail, assuming it can't be validated from
> the /etc/passwd file.
This sounds to me kind of like reinventing IMAP. Might installing IMAP
not be easier than trying to add all these features into POP, and then
trying to get the mail clients to support multiple inboxes?
Of course, I don't know the ultimate goal, but that's my first thought.
-- Clifton
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