Re: Blocking POP3 and IMAP

[Mike Iglesias <iglesias () UCI EDU>]

Geoff Nathan wrote:
> Can we train 40K users to set up their clients to do that?
> Probably not.  Especially when those users include the Provost, the Deans
> and most other Associate VP's, chairs and other high level officials. It's
> a distant gleam in our eyes, but not something we're going to be doing
> soon, no matter how badly needed it might be. And your career won't get
> very far if you threaten to fire the Provost or the Dean of Liberal Arts
> and Sciences because they insist on using Eudora. ;-)

We have at least as many users as you do, and we got them to switch over to
TLS/SSL POP/IMAP/SMTP without too much trouble.  We're pretty decentralized,
so each department/school has computing support staff who helped the users
with the transition, and our helpdesk helped others as they called in about
it.  We established a deadline for making the switch, and reminded the users
that it was happening.  Directed emails to the users who had not switched (and
their support staff) got the stragglers moved over.

Our mail setup instructions are here if you want to see the documentation we
have for our users:

http://www.nacs.uci.edu/email/settings.html


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