spam folder and POP users

Joseph Tam jtam.home at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 00:55:45 UTC 2014


Robert Moskowitz writes:

> My server is moving all tagged spam into the IMAP spam folder.  Very
> nice for the IMAP users, but not for the POP users.  Of course the
> server don't know, and the mysql database for users does not have any
> flags for this.  Don't want my server to fill up with spam from POP
> users that don't know to check via IMAP.

You can contort the virtual plugin to fuse your user's INBOX and
spam box together into a virtual INBOX:

 	http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual
 	(See section "Virtual POP3 INBOX")

This turns the problem from a delivery problem into a reading (or
presentation) problem.

Seems sort of klunky though.  In my opinion, your energy is better
invested in converting your POP3 holdouts to IMAP.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>


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