[Dovecot] Disable IMAP for certain users, but not Webmailer

[Don Russell]

FORMER 03 | Baltasar Cevc wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm planning to set up our new mail system using the Dovecot mailbox
> server. It mostly works fine yet (it's quite straigt forward to set up,
> I'd say), but there's a thing I haven't been able to find out yet. We
> provide POP3 access for all users, but want to restrict IMAP access to
> some of them (because IMAP users tend to leave more messages on the
> server, thus increasing storage needs).
>
>   
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1 - storage is cheap - Costco sells a 1 TByte external drive for approx 
$US 300. That holds a LOT of e-mail. The 500 GByte is less than half 
that price.
2 - why not enforce quotas? I assume you could set quotas by user.

POP users could opt to keep a copy on the server, so that doesn't 
guarantee anything.

I prefer IMAP because then I can access the same mail from different 
clients computers...