[Dovecot] POP3 and mail retention
Using outlook 2010 as mail client, I have noticed that once an email is moved from inbox, it is deleted from the cur/ directory on the server. Is there a pop3 setting on dovecot that would keep emails, with possible retention period, and recognize that this email has been moved from inbox, etc.. If all of this is doable, would setting outlook to delete the email after 14 days work? delete email from the server when emptying deleted folder?
Thanks in advance
Am 11.03.2014 14:31, schrieb Roman Gelfand:
Using outlook 2010 as mail client, I have noticed that once an email is moved from inbox, it is deleted from the cur/ directory on the server. Is there a pop3 setting on dovecot that would keep emails, with possible retention period
that is not the job of the server
- you have a setting "leave messages on server" in any MUA
- you can set for how long on any MUA
- if the MUA is configured to delete you MUST NOT do anything else on the server
On 03/11/2014 09:31 AM, Roman Gelfand wrote:
Using outlook 2010 as mail client, I have noticed that once an email is moved from inbox, it is deleted from the cur/ directory on the server. Is there a pop3 setting on dovecot that would keep emails, See in conf.d/20-pop3.conf
# This option changes POP3 behavior so that it's not possible to actually # delete mails via POP3, only hide them from future POP3 sessions. The mails # will still be counted towards user's quota until actually deleted via IMAP. # Use e.g. "$POP3Deleted" as the value (it will be visible as IMAP keyword). # Make sure you can legally archive mails before enabling this setting. #pop3_deleted_flag =
with possible retention period, no and recognize that this email has been moved from inbox, etc.. If all of this is doable, would setting outlook to delete the email after 14 days work? delete email from the server when emptying deleted folder? No. If you are not really deleting, you're not really deleting.
Maybe you can set up your own cron job to do a doveadm expunge on messages flagged with your pop3_deleted_flag, but I'm not sure about telling when that flag was set on a message.
Thanks in advance
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, Roman Gelfand wrote:
Using outlook 2010 as mail client, I have noticed that once an email is moved from inbox, it is deleted from the cur/ directory on the server. Is there a pop3 setting on dovecot that would keep emails, with possible retention period, and recognize that this email has been moved from inbox, etc.. If all of this is doable, would setting outlook to delete the email after 14 days work? delete email from the server when emptying deleted folder?
Check out: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge
I do not use it, but you can search the list for expierences. Note the remark at the top "The plugin itself doesn't clean up the expunged messages, you'll have to do it some other way (see below)."
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