[BUGS] Request for comment on email sorting

[Callum Gibson]

On 02Feb08 09:00, harrywwc wrote:
}All in all, I don't envy you - convincing users to change the way they 
}work if you have no 'authority' (just 'responsibility') is like hearding 
}cats.

I thought that was managing programmers... ;)

Anyway, another completely different approach that comes to mind is to
just have everyone configured to store the mail on a network drive
(which could be provided by samba). From what you described there is no
automatic way to intercept mail from all these disparate sources, so you
need to go and reconfigure each individual's mail client in any case.
A samba share has the advantage it's already permissioned plus you can
tell users to put other stuff in there if they want it backed up.

So you configure their mail program to have local store folders on the
network drive and they drag stuff in there (and outgoing could be automatic
if set up properly). Everything lands on the samba share on the server
and is backed up from there. (Configuration is obviously dependent upon
the user's chosen MUA.)

Not sure how anything will work with web mail though. Anyone using a webmail
interface is going to have to change something because ingoing and outgoing
mail is never on any of your local machines.

    C

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