I am using Dovecot 1.0.rc15

rc15 is very old... I'd update regardless when you get the chance... and if I'm not mistaken, there were quite a few updates that affected Outlook/Outlook Express clients...

together with Outlook (I apologize)

heh...

Now I discovered, that all the old eMails, I marked for deleting, are still there, even the veeery old ones. Dovecot is marking the eMails (I am using

Yeah, Outlook is a pain... it would be really cool if there were a way to have dovecot do this. The only problem is, Outlook users may be used to being able to 'undelete' messages, and might scream bloody murder if you did this without warning... now, if it could be configured on a per-user basis... :)

Anyway, in case you weren't aware...

You can hide them and just purge every now and then:

View > Arrange By > Current View > Hide Messages Marked for Deletion

And to make it easier to quickly purge the messages marked for deletion, you can set up the following button:

 * Choose Tools-Customize and click on the Commands tab.
 * Click on the Edit category and scroll down until you see the Purge
   Deleted Messages option.
 * Click to select the Purge Deleted Messages option and drag it up
   to your toolbar. One nice place to locate it might be next to the
   black X tool (which represents "delete").
 * After you see the words Purge Deleted Messages on your toolbar,
   you can click Close.
 * (In the future, if you need to move that command off of the
   toolbar, or move it to another location, simply repeat steps 23-26
   but drag it back onto the Edit list.)

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Best regards,

Charles

Michael Weisgerber spake the following on 8/10/2007 11:47 AM:

Yes, you are right, this will work. Thank you! But, as I am never satisfied, ;o) I'd prefer a solution which will not delete all marked messages, but keeps, let's say, the last two weeks. Just to be able to recover if there had been a faulty deletion decision before.

-----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Jim Horner [mailto:jhorner@arinbe.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 10. August 2007 18:54 An: mw@superformance.de; dovecot@dovecot.org Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] Deleting deleted eMails

On Friday 10 August 2007 10:12:50 Michael Weisgerber wrote:

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Hello 2gether,

I am using Dovecot 1.0.rc15 together with Outlook (I apologize) via IMAPS. Now I discovered, that all the old eMails, I marked for deleting, are still there, even the veeery old ones. Dovecot is marking the eMails (I am using

Have you tried purging (an action available from Outlook's menu (somewhere, always changing)) them?

Set up a script to move all those marked messages to a "trash" folder in each users mailstore. Then you can script another process to delete messages in their trash folder older than X days.

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