On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 08:28, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 23:18 +0100, Maciej Uhlig wrote: > > Timo Sirainen: > > > What exactly are they? I guess a global file that is served as a message > > > for all users? > > Right. With POP3 it is served once - after first user login after the > > message was placed in bulletin database (just a plaintext file in a > > directory, for instance). > > > > > That's more difficult to implement with IMAP than with > > > POP3. > > You know better, but... just place incoming (bulletin) mail in INBOX. >
Not exactly the same, but vpopmail does similar, one "real message file" and every user gets a symlink to it, that way the user gets the message but only that users symlink is removed in delete.
