Re: POP3 mail server- leave messages on the server

> "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@... 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??
>

> 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
>>
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