[Dovecot] Alerts and pre-authenticated connections

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Mar 13 18:38:51 EET 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:19 +0000, Mike Brudenell wrote:
> 
> 
> >> Q2.  The UW IMAP Server can issue "IMAP Alerts"
> >
> > http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting
> 
> Hmmm... that might be OK for our current needs.
> 
> The nice thing about the UW server is your session monitors the  
> timestamp on the systemwide and per-user alert files and, if this  
> changes, re-reads their contents to issue the new/revised  
> notifications.  This enables notifications (eg, "The Mail service is  
> shutting down at 6pm for emergency work") to be sent during
> someone's  
> session, not just at session startup. 

Hmm. Perhaps if more people keep asking me about this I'll implement it
after v1.0 :) You could also do it quite easily as a plugin.

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