[Dovecot] Prevent Download messages from server

[Selcuk Yazar]

why are you trying ??? this is brain storming




On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Jakob Curdes <jc at info-systems.de> wrote:

>  Am 20.09.2012 09:28, schrieb Selcuk Yazar:
>
> Alessio and Peter thank you again. maybe it can be future request. :)
>
>  We are trying to tell you that it is impossible to write a mail *client*that does not download (i.e. transfer) the mail that it shows to the user.
> This is why it makes no sense to prevent the download on the server side,
> and so there will never be such a function.
> Preventing the download (the transfer) of the mail fro mthe server to the
> client just means that the user *cannot read it*.
>
> Another question is whether there are mail *clients* which do not offer a
> possibility to *save* the read mail (which has already been "downloaded"
> for reading it). But that question is not really related to the dovecot
> mail server.
>
> If you want to get users to read mails, but not download them, I would
> suggest you deny the direct access to the mail server and use a
> browser-based application that shows the entire mail to the user, maybe as
> a graphical representation.  Or you use some sort of terminal software
> that connects to a host where the mail *clients* itself are installed,
> just letting the user view the data but nor copy it, e.g. the VNC protocol.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jakob Curdes
>
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