[Dovecot] Dovecot features

[Scott Silva]

on 4-8-2008 7:11 PM Phan Thanh Diện spake the following:
> Curtis Maloney sent this message on 4/9/2008 5:54 AM:
>> Phan Thanh Diện wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We would like to switch from courier-imap to dovecot. I have installed
>>> dovecot on a machine running FreeBSD 6.3 and now testing it. My
>>> questions are below:
>>>
>>> 1. Can I configure dovecot to delete all files that are older, say 10
>>> days, from defined mail boxes (for example Trash or Spam).
>>
>> Yes - take a look at the "expire" plugin: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins
>>
>>> 2. After I access mail box (using web mail squirrel imap) all emails
>>> moved from 'new' directory to 'cur'. Then messages are not accessible
>>> for pop3. Such behavor doesn't occur with courier-imap. Can I force
>>> dovecot to behave like courier-imap?
>>
>> That shouldn't be.  If you're using Dovecot for both POP3 and IMAP, your
>> mail client will be able to see all the mail no matter which protocol you
>> access it with.
>>
>> However, your mail client may be ignoring mail that's been "Seen".  
>> I'm not
>> sure why courier would behave differently with this.
>>
>> Have you read the migration guide? 
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier
>>
>>> Many thanks for help.
>>> Dien Phan
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Curtis Maloney
>> cmaloney at cardgate.net
>>
>>
>>
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you for your email.
> We have been using XMail (www.xmailserver.org) for smtp and pop3, 
> courier-imap for imap. This works for many years and we don't want to 
> change. The only change we would like is to switch from courier-imap to 
> dovecot. So configuration must be unchange: xmail for pop3 and smtp, 
> dovecot for imap.
> Unfortunately we are facing the problem I wrote about: after a user 
> access mail box via web client (www.squirrel.org) he can not see emails 
> any more via pop3. The reason is emails moved from 'new' to 'cur' 
> although nothing done. Dovecot automatically moves. Currently with 
> courier-imap, no matter we access via web mail or imap client (such as 
> ThunderBird or Outlook) users can retrive emails via pop3. So my 
> question is: does courier-imap behave abnormally or my dovecot 
> mis-configured?
> 
> Dien Phan
> 
More than likely the pop3 client downloads the messages and then deletes them. 
That is how pop3 works.

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