As a long term user of qpopper with bulletins, I'd like to know if the bulletin feature is planned for dovecot? I really miss bulletins :-), this is very convenient way of providing information to users. Best regards, MU
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:57 +0100, Maciej Uhlig wrote:> As a long term user of qpopper with bulletins, I'd like to know if the > bulletin feature is planned for dovecot? I really miss bulletins :-), > this is very convenient way of providing information to users.What exactly are they? I guess a global file that is served as a message for all users? That's more difficult to implement with IMAP than with POP3. One possibility would be to use v1.2 and its virtual mailboxes. Create a virtual INBOX from user's real INBOX and the global bulletin mailbox. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20090120/03927933/attachment-0002.bin>
Timo Sirainen:> What exactly are they? I guess a global file that is served as a message > for all users?Right. With POP3 it is served once - after first user login after the message was placed in bulletin database (just a plaintext file in a directory, for instance).> That's more difficult to implement with IMAP than with > POP3.You know better, but... just place incoming (bulletin) mail in INBOX.> One possibility would be to use v1.2 and its virtual mailboxes. > Create a virtual INBOX from user's real INBOX and the global bulletin > mailbox. >Sounds promising. We'll give it a try some day :-) Best regards, MU
On 1/20/2009, Maciej Uhlig (maciej.uhlig at us.edu.pl) wrote:> As a long term user of qpopper with bulletins, I'd like to know if > the bulletin feature is planned for dovecot? I really miss bulletins > :-) , this is very convenient way of providing information to users.Interesting idea... but isn't it just as easy to simply send an email? Or a shared mailbox with unique seen flags? -- Best regards, Charles