[Dovecot] Setting retention policies

[Bill Cole]

At 7:24 AM -0700 6/25/07, Don Russell  imposed structure on a stream 
of electrons, yielding:
>I access e-mail from different PCs, typically using Thunderbird e-mail client.
>
>Thunderbird has a a "retention policy" it can set on a folder by 
>folder basis. Policies such as how long to keep messages for, or how 
>many messages to keep.
>
>Is there a way to set those policies on the server itself?

Dovecot itself does not have such a facility, but if you use Maildir 
it is a fairly straightforward bit of scripting to whack message 
files greater than a particular age because they are in predictable 
places and have names starting with their delivery time as a Unix 
epoch time.
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Bill Cole                                  
bill at scconsult.com