Le lun 21/06/2004 à 02:31, Conny Brunnkvist a écrit : > Nate Duehr wrote: > > > Ward Willats wrote: > > > >> Yeah, everyone _should_ use AUTH (and heck, SSL), but for a boutique > >> server with few relayers, pop-before-smtp still works very well, thank > > > > Anyone know of any good way to implement IMAP before relay for those of > > us that left POP3 in the 80's where it belongs? ;-) > > The recently mentioned pop-before-smtp script works quite good, albeit a > bit contradictory, for IMAP-logins as well. And it's already packaged in > Debian together with (IIRC) a couple of good examples for well known > IMAP-servers. > > But just as Jérôme also points out, the nature of IMAP makes this method > less fit for control of relaying. You *will* start noticing one or both > of the following side-effects after prolonged use: > * Your users curse loudly and call you up to "fix the mail server" > each time they finish writing a long e-mail > * Your users, after being educated several times, develop an > instictive "Save draft, restart mail client, Edit draft, Send"-routine, > which in the end makes them feel reluctant towards using your system as > a whole ;-) Well, I have a "go offline" button in Evolution, which does the job. It is not optimal, though.
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