Re: [Dovecot] Setting retention policies

At 7:24 AM -0700 6/25/07, Don Russell imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding:

I access e-mail from different PCs, typically using Thunderbird e-mail client.

Thunderbird has a a "retention policy" it can set on a folder by folder basis. Policies such as how long to keep messages for, or how many messages to keep.

Is there a way to set those policies on the server itself?

Dovecot itself does not have such a facility, but if you use Maildir it is a fairly straightforward bit of scripting to whack message files greater than a particular age because they are in predictable places and have names starting with their delivery time as a Unix epoch time.

Bill Cole
bill@scconsult.com