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Not a Scalix question, I know. Sorry.

I need to use fetchmail to pull email for several hundred users from a courierpop3d server onto a Scalix box. The courier users are using their password from LDAP, and changing it will impact their samba domain and stuff, so changing the password isn't a good option.

What I'd like to be able to do is sign into all of the accounts with one administrative ID which might have access to all of the user mailboxes.

Does anyone know if there's a way to do that with courier?

Thanks in advance.
Kev.

Hi Mr. Anderson,

AFAIK, there is no privision either in pop3 as defined by RFC or as implemented by courier for signing on as one user and locking another user's mailbox. There is neither a command in the proto nor a workaround in courier do that. I'd love to be corrected, but I don't think I will be.

Do you have, or can you get, control of the mailserver in question? If so, possibilities are endless. You can dupe mails off at the MTA, insert a standardized .procmailrc into every user's homedir, or if you're feeling really wacky write a script catching inotify triggers on the relevant part of the filesystem and forwarding the mails with, say, the this post will be deleted Linux::INotify perl module and of course Net::Smtp (kernel hacking necessary)

Pretty fun problem really, if you're interested let's chat about it,

Agent Smith