[Dovecot] data retention and e-discovery rules

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Dec 2 19:27:14 EET 2008


On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 10:02 -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I am in the United States where we have e-discovery rules. Some 
> organizations have to retain data for a certain amount of time, others 
> are required to have a data retention policy.
> 
> This means that while it should probably be possible for a user to 
> "delete" an email so they do not see it. The server needs to store it, 
> possibly in a tree that mirrors the folder setup of the user (so if it 
> is in "Sales" folder, it should move to namespace "hidden", or similar, 
> in folder "Sales").
> 
> Is there anything like this in dovecot? Is it possible to use cron jobs 
> to see when the message was deleted (Maildir) and erase it based on 
> policy? (Python scripts are fine if the users password isn't needed.)

One possibility is http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge

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