centralized mail storage [was: Teching bogofilter by forwarding messages]

Gyepi SAM gyepi at praxis-sw.com
Sat Dec 20 03:43:32 CET 2003


On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:26:26AM +0000, Stroller wrote:
> Only my opinion, but decentralised email storage is a Bad Thing (tm). 
> You should disable the users POP3 access & make it company policy that 
> users HAVE to keep their mail on the server using IMAP. It would be 
> easy to argue that you have a responsibility to maintain copies of all 
> emails sent & received for legal reasons, and that back-up demands 
> email centralisation.

Once could make the argument, but it doesn't make it true.

You can keep copies of every message that passes through your server without
forcing everyone to use IMAP.

-Gyepi




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