If it possible to manipulate imap accounts from the client side with certain account

Simon Matter simon.matter at invoca.ch
Tue Nov 3 03:47:58 EST 2009


> Dear all,
>
>     I have an perl script to archive imap mailboxes from the client
> side. The script uses Perl::LDAP modules from cpan.
>
>     It is succeed to archive all my old mails to new mailboxes, such as
> mail_2007 and mail_2008 and so on.
>
>     The question now is, i don't know other peoples' password and well
> even if i know the passwords, it is much more frustrated to change an
> account and password for every account.
>
>    So, i wonder if it is possible that one mail account can access all
> other mail accounts just as the account owner. Then, this way, i just
> need to run the script once and do archive on all account in the same
> domain.

Hi,

You may want to check the "proxyservers" option in imapd.conf. Looks like
what you are looking for.

Regards,
Simon




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