[Dovecot] Setting retention policies

[Don Russell]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 07:24 -0700, Don Russell wrote:
>   
>> I access e-mail from different PCs, typically using Thunderbird e-mail 
>> client.
>>
>> Thunderbird has a a "retention policy" it can set on a folder by folder 
>> basis. Policies such as how long to keep messages for, or how many 
>> messages to keep.
>>
>> Is there a way to set those policies on the server itself?
>>     
>
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire
>
> But unfortunately you'd have to wait for v1.1 to use it.
>   

Good to know.... and you just added another project to my to-do list: 
learn how to write a plugin.... :-)

But, I have some other ideas of my own I think I'll pursue.... if I like 
how it turns out I'll put it "out there" as FOSS. :-)

Chers,
Don