[1496] in Moira
Re: IMAP question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Mar 28 23:10:00 2000
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: "Tom Coppeto" <tom@MIT.EDU>
cc: "Garry Zacheiss" <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>, "Qing Dong" <dongq@MIT.EDU>,
moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 25 Mar 2000 14:35:36 EST."
<NDBBKHCHPJDKBDPHJLDAAEMJCIAA.tom@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 23:09:53 -0500
> At some point, there are no POP types in the mail system although it appears
> to be used in a few places where mail is being forwarded outside the system
> but a hesiod pointer is desired. I wonder how much trouble its worth to
> worry about the transitions between IMAP and POP in moira. It could simplify
> things if hesiod pointers were just generated for mit.edu smtp mailboxes.
This would re-introduce the problem that when a user started
forwarding their mail to a local mit machine they could end up with
mail on the post office, but no hesiod pointer to get to it. eg:
user forwards mail to foo.mit.edu
user logs out
mail arrives and is delivered to PO
milhub/hesiod propogation happens
user logs in
user can't find the mail on the PO.
We could make it impossible for users to set a pop poboxes for
themselves unless they are on the relevant cacl. That would prevent
additional people from setting up pop poboxes outside of the mail
system. I'm not sure if we care about this or not, tho I'll admit I'm
currently using a pop server that is not part of the mail system.
Jonathon
