jordan. Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 If I have an email box that multiple staff log in to and share (obviously using IMAP), how can I protect/prevent someone from accidentally setting up their client with POP and clearing out all of the mail from the inbox to their local machine? This actually just happened when a staff member configured their personal Gmail account to connect to our sales address via POP3 and just cleaned out the entire inbox into their personal Gmail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiranui Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Do you host the mail server or have access to it configuration? You can configure it to refuse pop3 connections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan. Posted July 10, 2014 Author Share Posted July 10, 2014 At the moment some accounts use POP3 and some use IMAP. When we get some more storage space we'll go full IMAP then I'll try this out. Or can we configure it to refuse POP3 on a per account basis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 what email host are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiranui Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 In Dovecot, for example, you can set up read-only mailboxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.grz Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Without knowing the provider, I'd say disable POP3 access to mailbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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