[Dovecot] Dovecot and fake users

[Chris Laif]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Vytenis Sabaliauskas
<vytenis.sabaliauskas at gmail.com> wrote:
>       Hi everyone,
>
>   Our company has decided to make a fake POP3 (and possibly IMAP) server,
> which accepts any user name and password combination and shows there are no
> new messages. This is for the purpose that when our mail cluster passes out,
> we can redirect our clients to this server while  we fix our mail system.
> This way we can prevent our users from getting errors. We are using the

I wonder if this leads into problems if you have users who use the
option "leave messages on server for X days". The email client might
get confused by having/not having a list of UIDLs/messages in the
inbox.

?

Chris