Saving Direct to Shared Mailbox (Was: Re: [Dovecot] Sending email over IMAP?)

John Peacock jpeacock at rowman.com
Fri May 5 18:15:23 EEST 2006


Timothy White wrote:
> The situation I want it in, is basically lots of distribution lists,
> but I need to be able to control who has access to 'post' to it... And
> I need to simplify the posting to the list. Some of the lists would be
> very much mailing list style, with all users being able to 'post'.
> Others, would be a select group who can post.

This is wildly off topic for this list, IMNSHO.  You need to investigate 
either your MTA's capabilities (Postfix can do distribution lists, for 
example) or get a real list management package (ezmlm works great if you 
are in the Qmail world).  For that matter, you can use almost any of the 
existing LDA's out there (maildrop, etc) to create simple distribution 
lists; you could even use Dovecot's LDA with SIEVE rules, but that still 
doesn't make it on topic here.

There is absolutely no reason to try and bolt this functionality onto an 
IMAP/POP3 server.

John

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