On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:47:46 -0600 Rich Graves <rgraves@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. --------------------------------------- Phil Chambers (postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx) University of Exeter ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
