Sunday, July 10, 2011, 7:09:37 PM, Michael wrote:
On 07/10/2011 07:59 PM, Glenn English wrote:
On Jul 10, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
You can do things on the server to mitigate damage from people who check the "leave messages on server for eternity" box, but generally, this is a client preference.
What things can I do on the server? Many of my people use Macs, and there's nothing (I can find) in the iMail config to turn off the eternity switch.
With POP3, they don't have a "Trash" folder so you're probably stuck setting a quota[1].
You could also run a cron job or maybe use the expire plugin to get rid of old messages, but that would likely piss someone off eventually.
And, I guess, if they're leaving *every* message on the server, you could switch them to IMAP. They can't possibly leave any more stuff on there, right?
Actually, you should have linked to http://wiki1.dovecot.org/Quota. http://wiki2.dovecot.org is used for Dovecot v2.0.
The OP is using Dovecot 1.x. But, I see the OP in the latest message response has found the setting in the email client.
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