[Dovecot] Idea: POP3 deletion as a flag

[Timo Sirainen]

On 4.5.2013, at 1.27, Kelsey Cummings <kgc at corp.sonic.net> wrote:

> On 2013-05-03 09:14, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> GMail doesn't delete mails when POP3 client issues a DELE command for
>> it. Instead they just become invisible for future POP3 sessions, but
>> they still exist for IMAP/webmail. The same could be implemented
>> pretty easily for Dovecot:
> 
> How does the usage case by your large customer differ from that allowed by the lazy_expunge plugin?

I didn't ask what their main reason for this was, but for me it would be: "Oops, I accidentally configured my new email client as POP3 instead of IMAP, and now it deleted everything from my INBOX." With lazy_expunge the user would have to explicitly go and undelete the mails, and it would also undelete those mails that were intentionally deleted. With this feature nothing at all would go wrong on IMAP/webmail side.