[Dovecot] Blocked

[Odhiambo WASHINGTON]

* On 08/12/06 12:33 +0100, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
| Dominic Marks:
| 
| > An alternative which does this is to replace their mailbox with
| > a read-only mbox or maildir containing a single mail with the
| > 'you have been blocked' message you want. Obviously you would
| > need to allow them to log in again, but they would only receive
| > the message you choose.
| 
| I block pop3 to force my users to use webmail (that is in fact using IMAP).
| What mechanism should trigger sending a message that pop3 is blocked? 
| Once this message is send, it is either send by postfix to alternative 
| email account (Postfix forward) or just read once thru Webmail. In the 
| mean time this user is trying to establish pop3 on a 24/7 basis $-)


Why don't simply not start the pop3 daemon? Dovecot has that capability.


-Wash

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