16 Mar
2012
16 Mar
'12
7:55 p.m.
On 16.3.2012, at 19.52, Kelsey Cummings wrote:
On 03/16/12 08:30, Ed W wrote:
- Extremely racey, but if you were on maildir you could use some kind of pre-login scripting to kick off a scan on login. Touch some lock file so that you can tell when last scanned and only scan if the definitions have been updated since you last scanned?
I think this is actually the best solution to match our existing POP behavior. This was a lot cooler back when 90% of our users were on POP and on average had a couple of hours between checks - it may be a feature that has outlived its usefulness.
Whatever you do: Don't modify existing message files (without renaming them so they appear as new mails). IMAP (and Dovecot) require that messages never change.