Captive mailbox in Cyrus IMAP?

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

--On 21. November 2006 16:44:01 -0600 Rich Graves <rgraves at carleton.edu> 
wrote:

>> Say like something like when the imapd sees that user
>> joeschmo has authenticated and decides the prefix is user.joeschmoe.  If
>> I could hook in there I could override the folder to be user.captive,
>> which already has the 1 message and an ACL for read-only access.
>
> I used to do something like that with UW-IMAP at brandeis.edu, so I do
> see the appeal. Carleton just tends to disable passwords and wait for
> users to call the helpdesk, which is more realistic at a smaller liberal
> arts college than at a university.

FWIW: we do the same and we have 40,000 students ... I have to say, though, 
that we'd be likely to use captive mailboxes if they were an official 
feature of Cyrus.
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