[ravis007]

Hi,
Please give configuration guide for "restricting particular users for POP3 or IMAP in Linux".
Thanks in advance .........

[lotuseclat79]

Hi ravis007,

You must understand that doing so may eliminate excluded users from email as pop3 and imap are protocol facilities upon which email is based. Is that what you are trying to do, and do they have an internal email account? If so, you need some policy in place in your organization to handle the matter. Take up the issue with your local system administrator and management.

-- Tom

[briealeida]

Perhaps you'd like some people to only be able to use POP and others to only be able to use IMAP?

If so, please, what mail server software are you using? Thanks!

[Larkshall]

I have been using IMAP for some years now. As I understand it, the choice of POP or IMAP is when you are setting up your email client. POP downloads the emails onto your computer, whilst IMAP only downloads the headers, leaving the body of the email on the server. My understanding is that downloading the emails presents a risk of downloading a virus. With IMAP the email is only read from the server (you can't read it offline), it is similar to Webmail. If you delete an email it is deleted from the server. Moving the email to a local folder is downloading it to a local folder and should only be done with trusted sources. I believe a safer way (with Linux) would be to print to PDF (CUPS/PDF Printer).