On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:45:13AM +0700, Do Duc Huy wrote: > Hi all, can you help me? > I 've used postfix and cyrus for my email system. Now, I want to create a mail alert >system to notice user when they have new mails. I 'll create a deamon run in mail >server and user 'll have a client running in their system. But now, I don't know how >to get exactly information about new mail comming in email system. I 've used two >solutions below but each solution still have some weeknesses. > > 1. The first solution, my deamon will connect to imap server and get information >about new email for each account. This solution give correct information but it make >system to slowly. > 2. The second solution, I use forward method of postfix and forward a copy of new >email to alert server. This solution is greate, but some time, the information I have >was not correct, for example, when an account was over quota, there was no new email >can be received but the coppy one still forward to my deamon, so the deamon notice >user "you 've got new mail" while nothing "new" in his mailbox. >
For any user that wants to be notified of new mail setup a sieve script and use the notify extension. -- Scott Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Technology Center, System Admin, RHCE. Dial 877-735-8200 then ask for 919-543-9289 (TTY)
