[Dovecot] dovecot bulletins?

Noel Butler noel.butler at ausics.net
Wed Jan 21 02:35:38 EET 2009


On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 08:28, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 23:18 +0100, Maciej Uhlig wrote:
> > Timo Sirainen:
> > > What exactly are they? I guess a global file that is served as a message
> > > for all users? 
> > Right. With POP3 it is served once - after first user login after the 
> > message was placed in bulletin database (just a plaintext file in a 
> > directory, for instance).
> > 
> > > That's more difficult to implement with IMAP than with
> > > POP3. 
> > You know better, but... just place incoming (bulletin) mail in INBOX.
> 


Not exactly the same, but vpopmail does similar, one "real message file"
and every user gets a symlink to it, that way the user gets the message
but only that users symlink is removed in delete.




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