[Dovecot] remove messages once downloaded

Nick Warr nick at mobilia.it
Tue Feb 28 10:17:54 EET 2012


Il 28/02/2012 9.09, Jacek Osiecki ha scritto:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Michael Sidoric wrote:
>
>>> I need some help with the dovecot configuration. I want to remove
>>> downloaded messages from Mail Server once the messages have been
>>> successfully downloaded by pop3-clients, even when the clients have 
>>> been
>>> configured to save copy of messages in the Server.
>> timo is quite correct -- consider imap instead, that's why the 
>> protocol exists.
>
> This rather seems like anti-imap - kind of desperate search for free 
> disk space... IMAP does quite the opposite thing, since users acutally 
> never remove emails :)
>
> Greetings,
I'd suggest this:

http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/

You can chose to skip unread email, and decide when read mail gets 
archived/deleted, it suports mbox/maildir, etc..


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