Captive mailbox in Cyrus IMAP?

[Phil Chambers]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:47:46 -0600 Rich Graves <rgraves at carleton.edu> wrote:

> Phil Chambers wrote:
> > Rename the account from user.account to user.account-pending, keeping the same 
> > partition so that the rename is quick. Create a new account for user.account 
> > and put your single message in there. Do a reconstruct to make the message 
> > visible.
> 
> That's a lot more clever than my suggestion.
> 
> In theory, you might get problems with POP client UIDLs or IMAP 
> disconnected mode (though UIDVALIDITY is supposed to address that). Any 
> problems of this sort in practice?

I had overlooked the UIDL issue! I think we may have been lucky so far. We have 
very few POP clients and the use of this facility is not very common.

> Why the message drop and reconstruct rather than LMTP submission? Local 
> mail routing makes that difficult?

I added the message header by-pass facility to my Exim config after I had done 
the scripting and did not bother changing the script. You are quite right that 
one could use LMTP (I would do it that way if I started now).

Phil.
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Phil Chambers (postmaster at exeter.ac.uk)
University of Exeter