-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi John John79 wrote: > "Why would you want to? This is a good thing. Think of it as new==unread, > cur==read." > "I can't imagine why you'd want to do this anyway. Can you explain?" > > In a company where an email account like info@xxxxxxxxx exists it must been > seen from many employees due to the nature of the company. Many clients > place orders, questions etc. using the above email address. Consiquently, > the employee who is responsible for an email will answer accordingly. > However, if an employee open an email throu Squirrelmail-webmail and realise > after reading it that the specific email is not his responsibility then the > rest of the employee who use MUA's (Outlook, Thunderbird, Evolution, etc.) > will not be able to read it because it has already moved to 'cur' directory. > > So, does exist a way that I can avoid the moving of the new emails to the > 'cur' directory?? > What about setting up (Outlook, Thunderbird, Evolution, etc.) to use IMAP not pop3? David > John > > > > > Marc Powell wrote: >> >> On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:08 AM, John79 wrote: >> >>> Hello everybody, >>> >>> Recently I build up an email server using Postfix, Dovecot, >>> Squirrelmail >>> etc. The problem that I am facing with Squirrelmail is that when the >>> users >>> try to read their email throu webmail, after they read them, the >>> emails are >>> moved from directory 'new' to 'cur'. I have spent hours looking the >>> option >>> in order to leave the messages on the server at the 'new' directory >>> but it >>> was unsuccessful. >> Why would you want to? This is a good thing. Think of it as >> new==unread, cur==read. >> >>> On the other hand clients that use Outlook, Thunderrbird etc. can >>> have the >>> option to leave the message on the server. >> That's a key difference between IMAP clients (like squirrelmail) and >> POP clients. IMAP clients *always* leave mail on the server and the >> messages are always managed there or kept in sync with the client. POP >> clients download from the server by default but can be configured to >> leave a *copy* on the server, no real synchronization between the >> client and the server is done other than downloading new messages and >> possibly deleting older messages. >> >>> In addition on dovecot.conf I >>> edit the following: >>> >>> # Don't try to set mails non-recent or seen with POP3 sessions. >>> This is >>> # mostly intended to reduce disk I/O. With maildir it doesn't move >>> files >>> # from new/ to cur/, with mbox it doesn't write Status-header. >>> >>> pop3_no_flag_updates = yes >> Squirrelmail isn't a pop3 client so this has no effect. I can't >> imagine why you'd want to do this anyway. Can you explain? >> >> -- >> Marc >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge >> This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, >> vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have >> the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full >> prize >> details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge >> ----- >> squirrelmail-users mailing list >> Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines >> List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user >> List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users >> >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpV4CQACgkQctHzI5Y76IFkhQCeMU4lHzAU1rNq3g6Kdcw07mKU VHUAniCjIF20/Yd4e6u0wjMBLwbi0WFO =VCSu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
