Re: [Exim] Dummy POP3 server

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著者: Nigel Metheringham
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To: Jens Vonderheide
CC: exim-users
題目: Re: [Exim] Dummy POP3 server
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 16:24, Jens Vonderheide wrote:
> sorry for this slightly offtopic post.
> Does anyone know of a dummy POP3 server, i.e. a server that accepts any user
> and password and reports no mails?
>
> I want to move to an Courier IMAP in the near future and while converting
> the mbox files to maildir, no accesses must be made to these files.
> Simply shutting down the POP3 server will result in a lot of complaints from
> my customers ;-)


Why not just let them hit the courier imap pop daemon with an (intially)
empty directory set. Then as you transfer the mail into there they will
see the replicated content appear. This can be done without message
corruption dangers because of the Maildir lock-free operation mode.

    Nigel.
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