[Dovecot] "Maintenance instance"

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On 24.10.2010, at 11.36, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> 
> >> 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?
> 
> I'm pretty sure they will. I'm not aware of any good way to handle this, other than ALERTs.

Hm, OK.
Maybe the alert idea is the best idea so far.

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