Agreed, although it doesn't apply to sending emails from non European citizens, only mailboxes containing European citizens' emails. It's only enforceable if the citizenship of the holder of the mailbox is known.
However, the assertion that if you are a company you are required to delete old emails automatically according to GDPR is not correct. In the UK which was aligned with the European GDPR there is no such requirement; in fact, for accounting and some legal reasons you are required to keep records for 6-7years, so if those records eg orders, are emails or attachments in emails they should be kept. https://www.ionos.co.uk/startupguide/grow-your-business/retention-periods-fo... (the email retention section)
It is probably more an individual company policy using GDPR as an "excuse". That is very commonly used as a reason why a company can or cannot do something, regardless of the actual GDPR law. In this case, probably to keep user's mail boxes down to a sensible size, although based on the above info, they may be breaking other laws by deleting emails.
You can look up the actual gdpr requirements if you are interested. the uk version is here https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/data-pro... which show you can keep data as emails as long as you want, providing you have a reason.
regards, Tim
On 28/02/2024 09:38, Rupert Gallagher via dovecot wrote:
First, dovecot is a global product, where not every company has to take care about european nonense laws
Not true.
If you are a non-European company with European customers, then you are subject to GDPR law.
-------- Original Message -------- On Feb 25, 2024, 16:35, Steven Varco < dovecot.org@bbs.varco.ch> wrote:
> Am 25.02.2024 um 09:38 schrieb Rupert Gallagher via dovecot dovecot.org>: > > >> Things like this should be done locally on the Mailclient (MUA), IMHO. > > If you are a company, then you must delete old e-mails automatically, by GDPR > law. In this case it comes back to that this is better done by an external script. First, dovecot is a global product, where not every company has to take care about european nonense laws. :P Second, I would not want dovecot to become a „fullsize all in one solution for everything“ (like MS Exchange). I like the concept of doing one thing only, but doing this good. Steven > > > -------- Original Message -------- > On Feb 21, 2024, 23:25, Steven Varco < dovecot.org@bbs.varco.ch> wrote: > >> Am 21.02.2024 um 21:25 schrieb Peter Reinhold : > > Hi > I have been > wondering about if Dovecot has a feature that would allow users to > setup a > rule for a given folder, that mails older than X days should be > deleted? > Or > is > this something that would need to be done by an external script? Yes. It > goes beyond of what I expect from an IMAP server. > I have looked a bit at > autoexpunge, and while the basic feature looks to be > what I need, it doesn't > seem to be configurable down to a specific folder on a > single user. Things > like this should be done locally on the Mailclient (MUA), IMHO. Steven - > - https://steven.varco.ch/ https://www.tech- island.com/ > _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list - > - dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-leave@dovecot.org > > _______________________________________________ > dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org > To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-leave@dovecot.org _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot- leave@dovecot.org
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