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

[Steven F Siirila]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 06:41:28PM -0500, Ethan Sommer wrote:
> 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.

Good point, although it would still be nice to have something integrated
into Dovecot to handle "alert" messages.

> Ethan
> 
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