[Dovecot] Purging /var/mail/username ?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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[sent again - to the list this time]

On 23-12-2004 15:36, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Dovecot is delivering mail to my ~/.mail directory wonderfully. But
> /var/mail/michael is growing steadily.
>
> Is it the job of Dovecot to purge this file regularly? Is there a
> setting somewhere for this?

Sounds like you are used to the special mbox feature of UW-imap: If the
file $HOME/mbox exists, then that is masqueraded as INBOX and when
reading it using POP3 or IMAP the content of /var/mail/$user is first
transfered to $HOME/mbox.

Dovecot does not support the UW-IMAP mbox feature. Mail below /var/mail
is purged when/if the users purge their INBOX.

I like that feature: It makes it possible to do hardquota and if hitting
the roof it is at first only user and the local admin knows, instead of
emails bouncing right away.


 - Jonas

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