Re: [Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature "leave messages on server for a certain period of time"

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 11:57 +0300, Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης wrote:

I am missing something on the the pop3 "leave messages" rationale.

Although the UIDL feature solves for the MUA the problem "whch mails should be downloaded", how the duration that these mails should be kept on server, say 10 days for one MUA and 20 days for another MUA for the same account, is resolved on the server?

I guess you could configure Dovecot to delete mails older than n days with expire plugin: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire

But I've no idea if it's really a good idea to do that. Some clients might freak out. Oh and expire plugin would delete messages regardless of whether client has ever even downloaded them.