Re: [Dovecot] message-of-the-day feature?

2007-04-24 Thread Steven F Siirila
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 06:41:28PM -0500, Ethan Sommer wrote: Steven F Siirila wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:22:05PM +0200, Jakob Hirsch wrote: Quoting Odhiambo WASHINGTON: You can do just that with dovecot, see http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting It's not very good

Re: [Dovecot] message-of-the-day feature?

2007-04-23 Thread Stewart Dean
I don't know if it is part of IMAP protocol or just a UWIMAP bell/whistle, but with UWIMAP if you create a file /etc/imap.alert, a window will pop up on the client every time you do any imap action. It is: 1) very annoying 2) perfect for emergencies The message must be short. Dunno if it works

Re: [Dovecot] message-of-the-day feature?

2007-04-22 Thread Ethan Sommer
Steven F Siirila wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:22:05PM +0200, Jakob Hirsch wrote: Quoting Odhiambo WASHINGTON: You can do just that with dovecot, see http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting It's not very good performance-wise, because you spawn extra processes for each login, but

[Dovecot] message-of-the-day feature?

2007-04-19 Thread Steven F Siirila
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

Re: [Dovecot] message-of-the-day feature?

2007-04-19 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Quoting Odhiambo WASHINGTON: 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

Re: [Dovecot] message-of-the-day feature?

2007-04-19 Thread Justin McAleer
Steven F Siirila wrote: That's worth noting, but... What about getting notices out to those folks whose IMAP client stays connected (sometimes for days on end)? In a plugin, what would trigger a check for new messages? I haven't explored the plugin capabilities yet, so I don't know what