[Dovecot] message-of-the-day feature?

[Ethan Sommer]

Steven F Siirila wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:22:05PM +0200, Jakob Hirsch wrote:
>   
>> Quoting Odhiambo WASHINGTON:

>> You can do just that with dovecot, see
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting
>> It's not very good performance-wise, because you spawn extra processes
>> for each login, but it depends on your setup/use-case how much it
>> affects you.
>>     
>
> That's worth noting, but...
>
> What about getting notices out to those folks whose IMAP client stays
> connected (sometimes for days on end)?
>
>   
You could always kill all their connections. Most clients will reconnect 
and in an emergency I'd imagine it would outweigh any inconvenience to 
your users.

Ethan

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