Userwise pop/imap access

[Bron Gondwana]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012, at 02:21 PM, Ram wrote:
> I have a requirement that we need to provide imap access only to some 
> mailboxes
> All other users download the mails using pop
> 
> Currently I am using an nginx proxy and checking for users in nginx , 
> but that seems inefficient.
> 
> Is there a better way ?

Are you seeing performance problems, or are you creating yourself makework?

There is the userdeny database, but the nginx approach works well and scales.
That's what we use at FastMail.

Bron.
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