Re: imap sharing debian list mail for multiple users
On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 09:25, Jesse Meyer wrote:
> On Thu, 08 May 2003, Mark Devin wrote:
>
> > Say you have multiple users on your system and they all like to read the
> > debian-user mailing list. Now if they all subscribe to the list for
> > their own personal copies of each mail then this increases the load on
> > the server.
> >
> > What would be a better approach would be to have an imap account which
> > receives all debian-user mail and each user can map this account using
> > their favourite mail client. Obviously, users shouldn't be able to
> > delete or move mail from this list as this might upset other users.
> >
> > What are the solutions to this problem? I have noticed that some people
> > frquenting this list have email addresses like: debian@example.com. Is
> > to address this issue?
>
> There is a debian-user list->news gateway. Of course, its only one way,
> mail is converted into news, and news cannot be posted. I'm told that
> by altering the moderation status of the group, you can get posts to be
> mailed to the list, instead of trying to be posted via the newsgroup.
After looking into courier-imap further, I see that you can set up
shared folders using the "maildirmake -S" command. I will look into
this and experiment further. I assume this is what others on this list
do for their addresses like: debian-user@my_domain_name.com.
I am wondering if anyone can enlighten me on how they have addressed the
above problem. Is there some way I can also configure postfix to reject
emails to such an address when it has not come from debian? This would
totally block spam to the account, but would prevent people replying to
me directly. Can you even configure postfix to reject mail based on
sender address or even better, MTA IP address?
I am interested in others ideas and solutions.
Regards.
Mark.
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