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On 23-12-2004 15:36, Michael Hipp wrote:
Dovecot is delivering mail to my ~/.mail directory wonderfully. But /var/mail/michael is growing steadily.
Is it the job of Dovecot to purge this file regularly? Is there a setting somewhere for this?
Sounds like you are used to the special mbox feature of UW-imap: If the file $HOME/mbox exists, then that is masqueraded as INBOX and when reading it using POP3 or IMAP the content of /var/mail/$user is first transfered to $HOME/mbox.
Dovecot does not support the UW-IMAP mbox feature. Mail below /var/mail is purged when/if the users purge their INBOX.
I like that feature: It makes it possible to do hardquota and if hitting the roof it is at first only user and the local admin knows, instead of emails bouncing right away.
- Jonas
- Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt
- Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/
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