Hi Micheal,
the article is fine if you continue reading it to the next bullet points about IMAP, POP3 and LMTP. In short words…
When the user quits and thus closes his mailbox/connection, Dovecot quickly looks through the folders to clean up mails which are older then configured days.
In the past there was a cron job which could do this every n hours, days, … but this setting does this automatically. Still I prefer using cron which gives me more control over when this lookup happens.
User deinitialization is simply developer „slang" for user closes connection/quits his program.
Philon
Am 30.08.2016 um 14:41 schrieb Michael Fox news@mefox.org:
I'm trying to understand autoexpunge, but the documentation is just not clear. Hopefully, someone can clear up a few questions.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings says the following:
autoexpunge=<time>: (v2.2.20+) Automatically at user deinitialization expunge all mails in this mailbox whose saved-timestamp is older than <time> (e.g. autoexpunge=30d). This removes the need for expire plugin http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire if you don't care that the expunging may not always happen in time.
What does "at user deinitialization" mean?
What does "if you don't care that the expunging may not always happen in time" mean?
I read the sub-bullets but they just aren't clear. When exactly does autoexpunge occur?
Thanks,
Michael