[Dovecot] n00b here -- pop email deletion

Glenn English ghe at slsware.com
Mon Jul 11 03:23:46 EEST 2011


On Jul 10, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

> You could also run a cron job or maybe use the expire plugin to get rid
> of old messages, but that would likely piss someone off eventually.

About 15 seconds after they lose a picture of somebody's baby.

> And, I guess, if they're leaving *every* message on the server, you
> could switch them to IMAP. They can't possibly leave any more stuff on
> there, right?

Sigh. They were IMAP -- I was trying to help them -- I got them to switch to POP because their email directories were getting too big; they never delete anything. I was hoping that POP would fix the server's directory size, and they could keep all the baby pictures they wanted to.

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Glenn English




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