[Dovecot] Idea: POP3 deletion as a flag

[Reuben Farrelly]

On 4/05/2013 8:10 PM, Axel Luttgens wrote:
> Le 4 mai 2013 à 00:44, Timo Sirainen a écrit :
>
>> 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.
>
> Hello Timo,
>
> I'll sure appear, once again, to be a bit dumb, but I'm somewhat
> uncomfortable with that "POP3 deletion as a flag" option.
>
> As others already have noticed, this is liable to lead to confusion
> in the user's mind as well as to privacy concerns.

So in that case you won't turn the option on.  The feature is just 
giving a mail administrator the option to enable it if they want to. 
I'd bet that most probably won't.

Different story if the default would be changed and the feature would be 
on for unsuspecting admins.

So I'd say Timo - go for it.  As long as it is not defaulted to being 
enabled, then there's nothing to lose and everything to gain.  I can't 
see any downsides to this?

Reuben