With UWIMAP and TBird, if you had a file /etc/imap.alert (or some such, I forget), the message therein would pop up in a small window (the length of the text was severely limited) on the client when you did virtually anything, again and again. This would be valuable in the case of a campus-wide emergency/lockdown/etc. The behavior was really persistently in-your-face annoying amounting to making mail difficult to use (which could be a problem if a user is trying to send discrete emergency msgs to other individuals....tha ALERTs get in the way).
Correct me if I am wrong (please), but the referenced measure seems like it would only popup at login (does it appear on the TBIRD client?).
FWIW, Timo prototyped an reincarnation of that classic ALERT function here: http://www.dovecot.org/patches/1.1/imap-alert-plugin.c at my request, but I got sidetracked and never implemented it. Has anyone else implemented it?
Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Frank Bonnet wrote:
Is it possible that a IMAP client (thunderbirs in my case) popup a message box containing a short message when a user connect to the server ?
Is there such feature in Dovecot ?
http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting see IMAP ALERT and the note "Although note that not all clients show the alerts, even though IMAP RFC requires it."
Regards,
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