[Dovecot] "Maintenance instance"

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Patrick Ben Koetter <p at state-of-mind.de>:
> * Edgar Fuß <ef at math.uni-bonn.de>:
> > > and gives any user logging in a canned mail
> > > (e.g. "We're doing maintenance, go away")
> > Wouldn't a client that keeps local copies of all IMAP boxes then synchronize
> > to that canned state, i.e., delete all locally cached mails?
> 
> See "Alerts" in <http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting>.

"Not all clients show the alerts, even though IMAP RFC requires it."
let me guess: Outlook is one of those? If so: Useless.


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