Prevent users from creating folders

[robwaite]

Hello,

Is there a way to stop folders from being created.

The main problem comes when users are accessing their mail for a number of different systems and mail folders are created automatically for example delete, deleted messages, trash etc.

Depending on what client software you are using (ie outlook or iphone etc) they seem to have their own preference on what they want the folders to be called and they go ahaed and create them for you.

Annoying when you have 4 or so folders for deletions, junk and sent items.

Thanks,

Rob

[rob]

This is indeed an annoying problem and something which does make make managing an account from multiple clients problematic. Unfortunatly however there is no way to disable folder creation. What I have done is made a recommedation that the group settings be extended to include control over this. In the meantime, one thing we have added in the past is permenant folders (configurable in the group settings). This basically create undeletable mail folders with all the associated users, which often encourage users to adjust their mail clients to use these folders. These of course were made to ensure that every user had the appropiate junk folder for bayesian training and content filtering.