At 8:42 AM -0500 4/14/08, Adam Williams imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding:
I looked on the dovecot website, but didn't find an answer. With dovecot 1.0, is there a way to keep users from deleting their email? So that when they click the delete button on their email client, nothing happens/dovecot refuses to delete email, etc?
Presumably you're users are all using IMAP, since the question doesn't really make sense for POP users, whose view of mail is entirely local to their machines, not the server.
I'd argue that having the sort of in-your-face dysfunction you describe is probably not the best approach unless user antagonism is one of your goals. You would probably be better off making a user's deletion into a server-side hiding/archiving. The "Lazy Expunge" plugin can do that. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge
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Bill Cole
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