[Dovecot] Expire Plugin Configuration Question
I am very confused looking at the expires plugin and its configuration.
What is confusing me the most is that it appears that I have to
configure expiration globally, meaning, for example, that the Trash
mailbox expiration interval is the same regardless of the user. What I
really am looking for is per-user configurable rules. Those would
obviously not be able to be in a file configuration but would have to be
in some shared/sharable resource. Is such a thing possible? What I
really want is the ability to move my expiration rules out of my email
client and into dovecot. That would be very useful for me since I
access my mail from more than one host and via more than one client.
roland
-- PGP Key ID: 66 BC 3B CD Roland B. Roberts, PhD RL Enterprises roland@rlenter.com 6818 Madeline Court roland@astrofoto.org Brooklyn, NY 11220
On 10/4/2009 7:50 PM, Roland Roberts wrote:
I am very confused looking at the expires plugin and its configuration. What is confusing me the most is that it appears that I have to configure expiration globally, meaning, for example, that the Trash mailbox expiration interval is the same regardless of the user. What I really am looking for is per-user configurable rules.
Hmmm... interesting. I don't think you can use extra fields for this now, but I wonder if it would be possible to modify expire plugin to do so?
There should be a way to define global defaults - and even a way to enforce those defaults (maybe I don't want my users to be able to keep stuff in their trash folder for a year?)... but being that ianap, I have no idea how easy (or difficult) this would be to do.
I do like the idea though, and if it is implemented, I'll push for the postfixadmin guys to support this in postfixadmin for a future release.
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Best regards,
Charles
Charles Marcus wrote:
On 10/4/2009 7:50 PM, Roland Roberts wrote:
I am very confused looking at the expires plugin and its configuration. What is confusing me the most is that it appears that I have to configure expiration globally, meaning, for example, that the Trash mailbox expiration interval is the same regardless of the user. What I really am looking for is per-user configurable rules.
Hmmm... interesting. I don't think you can use extra fields for this now, but I wonder if it would be possible to modify expire plugin to do so?
Well, it's a bit disappointing to hear that it can't be done, but I'm
not surprised since that's what I was inferring from the documentation.
I was hoping to be able to configure a uniform expiration policy, just
like I currently use procmail to file my mail without having to have a
separate config for each client.
roland
-- PGP Key ID: 66 BC 3B CD Roland B. Roberts, PhD RL Enterprises roland@rlenter.com 6818 Madeline Court roland@astrofoto.org Brooklyn, NY 11220
On 10/4/2009, Roland Roberts (roland@astrofoto.org) wrote:
I was hoping to be able to configure a uniform expiration policy, just like I currently use procmail to file my mail without having to have a separate config for each client.
What I had said was I don't think (maybe you can) that you can do it on a per user basis...
If by 'uniform' you mean 'global', currently all you *can* do is set a global policy...
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Best regards,
Charles
Charles Marcus wrote:
On 10/4/2009, Roland Roberts (roland@astrofoto.org) wrote:
I was hoping to be able to configure a uniform expiration policy, just like I currently use procmail to file my mail without having to have a separate config for each client.
What I had said was I don't think (maybe you can) that you can do it on a per user basis...
If by 'uniform' you mean 'global', currently all you *can* do is set a global policy...
The documentation doesn't say anything about per-user which implies it can't be done. I would very much like to be wrong on that.
By uniform, I don't mean global. I mean that the policy is set (by me on each of my folders) once instead of once per mail client.
roland
-- PGP Key ID: 66 BC 3B CD Roland B. Roberts, PhD RL Enterprises roland@rlenter.com 6818 Madeline Court roland@astrofoto.org Brooklyn, NY 11220
On Oct 4, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Roland Roberts wrote:
I am very confused looking at the expires plugin and its
configuration. What is confusing me the most is that it appears
that I have to configure expiration globally, meaning, for example,
that the Trash mailbox expiration interval is the same regardless of
the user. What I really am looking for is per-user configurable
rules.
Maybe for v2.0.
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Charles Marcus
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Roland Roberts
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Timo Sirainen