[Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature "leave messages on server for a certain period of time"

[Axel Luttgens]

Le 11 sept. 2009 à 12:07, Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης a  
écrit :

>
> Hi
> I can clearly understand this, but what if we have two MUAs with  
> different time period settings
> on the same account , 10 days the first and 20 days the second.
> The first when it will be connected on the 10th day it will delete  
> on server all messages, so the second will not get anything at all
> Correct?

Yes.
The server doesn't know anything about MUAs configuration: it just  
honors DELE commands.
The same way, a MUA is unaware of another MUA's configuration, and  
will thus send its DELE commands depending on its own settings (and  
algorithms).

Axel