Subject: Re: ipop3d NOT allowing 'Leave mail on server'

From: [email-masked] (Jie Yuan)
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 07:40:28 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
[email-masked] wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I wonder if it is possible to compile ipop3d (we use 3-6), so that
> it is not possible for Eudora users to set 'Leave mail on server'.
> If too much of our Eudora users do this, our 2G /var/spool/mail
> will get full.

Impose disk quota on the storage of email.  If users lose emails due to
disk quota, it is their fault.  Try to warn them early and frequently so
that you are protected... :-)

> 
> We use at another place another pop server which does not allow this,
> but this pop server has problems with locked mailboxes, so I like to use
> the POP server of the imap distribution because most of our users use
> Pine.

You can disable the POP3 altegether if you want.  When this happens, all
Eudora users will have to find IMAP clients and you'll get earful of
complaints.  You still have to impose disk quota since IMAP does not solve
disk problems.

Jie

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:02:01 -0800

> the POP server of the imap distribution because most of our users use

The decision of whether or not mail is left on the server is completely up
to the POP3 client.  The POP3 client must issue an explicit delete command
(DELE in POP3 protocol) to remove messages.  There is no way that the
server can force the client to download messages.

You could something like automatically delete the mailbox when a POP3
session completes.  It's up to you whether or not destroying users' mail
is a good idea.

-- Mark --	Read http://www.imap.org for the "best kept secret in email"

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