[Dovecot] POP3/IMAP newbie question

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Wed Oct 24 21:32:23 EEST 2007


on 10/24/2007 5:06 AM Ed W spake the following:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>> on 10/23/2007 2:39 PM Lars Stavholm spake the following:
>>> Is it possible to serve both POP3 and IMAP for the same
>>> user from the same mailbox format, e.g. the maildir format?
>>>
>> It doesn't make a lot of sense to do it, 
> 
> 
> How about normally logging in via POP, but users want webmail access also?
> 
> Ed W
> 
Then use something like openwebmail. It uses pop, but stores its files in mbox 
format, so you can still see them with imap. It can look at the inbox, and 
users can read what is there, but as soon as they pop with their normal 
client, the mail is pulled off the server and the inbox is empty.

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