Force a user to use POP3

Joseph Tam jtam.home at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 23:36:49 EEST 2018


On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, John Doe Vecot wrote:

> I have dovecotrunning icw postfixandhave IMAP and POP3 available to retrieve 
> mail.
> Can you tell me how I can configure Dovecot in order to force certain users 
> to use POP3 (download messages) only?

You might be able to only allow POP3, but you won't be able to force them
to download the message.  That depends on the mail agent.  Many mail
readers have "keep on server" configured, if server-side storage is
your concern.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>


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