I could see this being useful as well for password expirations. When the
password expires, trigger it to display only the message explaining that the
user needs to go to the web portal and change their password.
Unless there are better ways to force password changes for IMAP/POP dominate
users, I've been wrestling with a solution to this for a while now.
-Tyler
Nik Conwell wrote:
On Nov 21, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Mike wrote:
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Nik Conwell might have said:
We're currently using UW IMAP and have previously implemented a hack
whereby accounts (based on shell name) are designated captive. For
these accounts, any SELECT of any folder is overridden to SELECT a
read-only shared mailbox with a single e-mail that tells them they're
captive and what they need to do to get out of the situation. To the
client it looks like you've lost all your e-mail and you only have a
single message. In reality, the e-mail is still there and delivery
continues to work. Getting them back to their normal mailboxes is a
quick/easy operation.
Is there any way to do a similar thing in Cyrus IMAP? I'm not
against coding it but I wanted to see if there was a conventional way
of doing this first.
Why do you do this?
Archiving accounts after people graduate and leave the university. We
send people a bunch of e-mails letting them know they're being archived
but often they're ignored. We still do this, but then before archiving
we put them into a captive state for a couple of weeks. Having only 1
e-mail in your inbox makes it painfully obvious that things are indeed
going away. At that point people can request an extension, register for
a class, etc and we can turn the account back on. We could just disable
the account and/or password, but having an e-mail explaining things sits
better than an "Invalid login" error message. Having this extra captive
step also saves us from the pain of restoring the account again in the
near future.
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