Hi Trever
On 02/12/2008, Trever L. Adams trever.adams@gmail.com wrote:
Hello All,
I am in the United States where we have e-discovery rules. Some organizations have to retain data for a certain amount of time, others are required to have a data retention policy. ... Is there anything like this in dovecot? Is it possible to use cron jobs to see when the message was deleted (Maildir) and erase it based on policy? (Python scripts are fine if the users password isn't needed.)
Thank you, Trever Adams
Cyrus, I know for a fact, supports data retention policies, but I guess you'd just need to be imaginative when it comes to using Dovecot. I personally have all mail blindly bcc'd to a mailbox to which only I have access, but I'm doing that before delivery (using postfix's always_bcc) instead of at the dovecot/mail delivery end. It seems to work fine.
Otherwise, what you could look at doing is setting up the cron job, as you say, to mirror any files that have appeared in the mailbox.
Just my 2c
Best regards, Ronald.
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