on 6-2-2008 10:36 AM Carlos Williams spake the following:
I noticed today I checked a users mailbox with the mutt command:
mutt -f /home/bob/email/
There I saw he had 100 messages that had been deleted but not yet purged from his inbox so they're still using up disk storage on my email server. My question is does Dovecot have a process to automatically delete these messages after a certain period of time? I would like to think that they don't just sit in a users mailbox for years waiting to be purged, right? Does anyone know exactly how this works?
I checked my own mailbox using mutt and I see 11 messages that are deleted from my Thunderbird client but are still on the server (marked for deletion).
How long do these messages stay there?
They stay until they are purged. There are plugins that will help if you are using maildir, but I don't know of anything for mbox if you are using that.
-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!