Sunday, July 10, 2011, 6:45:31 PM, Glenn wrote:
I'm running Dovecot IMAP and POP3 on Debian. But it look's like it's keeping mail in the user's inbox on the server until it's deleted by the user. I thought POP servers deleted email as soon as it was downloaded, but apparently not, according to dovecot.org.
Is the email client used to read email set to leave mail on the server for a period of time or indefinitely?
Is there something in the Dovecot conf I can do to get rid of all this redundant crud?
Recent versions of Dovecot can use doveadm to remove messages off the server that have the deleted and seen flags set. I'm not sure about doing the same for earlier versions of Dovecot.
With Dovecot 2.0.12, I have a cron set up to remove messages that are marked as deleted using:
/usr/local/bin/doveadm expunge -A mailbox '*' deleted
I see several conversations on the 'Net about "quotas" that look like they might keep stuff around for a few days or weeks, then delete. That sounds lovely, but I don't understand them enough to try to make it happen.
dovecot -n:
# 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap pop3 ssl_listen: * ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_max_processes_count: 12 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix
-- Best regards, Duane mailto:duane@duanemail.org