> * On 19/04/07 10:13 -0500, Steven F Siirila wrote: > | For lack of a better name, we are interested in a feature where one could > | get a notice out to all Dovecot users as quickly as possible, possibly > | without going through an MTA even. Given a message and a list of userids > | we could certainly do a mailing on the MDA server itself going through > | both Postfix and Dovecot LDA. However, we were wondering what other options > | we might have in Dovecot. For example, would it be possible to place the > | message into some file which Dovecot periodically checks for, and if the > | file exists, either present it to the user as a new message, or > automatically > | deliver it at that time via Dovecot LDA? > > It's a really nice feature! > > We have something like that with tpop3d (Chris Lightfoot's). tpop3d is > nolonger maintained but it's rock solid as a POP3 daemon. It gives this > feature via some perl hooks (plugin, I'd call it, for lack of the proper > word atm) and works very well. > It serves the "bulletin" without any reference to the MTA, and keeps a > DB of those users who have received/retrieved/pop-ed the bulletin(s) > so that they don't get them twice. > It's one feature I will surely miss if I migrated to dovecot 100%. > It would seem to me to be easy enough to do this with post-login scripting http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting -- Kenny Dail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>