[Dovecot] Oops!

Pascal Volk user+dovecot at localhost.localdomain.org
Thu Aug 20 03:58:40 EEST 2009


On 08/20/2009 02:27 AM Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> I was testing a new webmail client - like an idiot, against my own 
> mailbox, instead of a test mailbox (or even a separate server) - and my 
> Inbox got wiped.  Fortunately I backup our mails nightly, so I only lost 
> a couple from today.
> 
> No idea how the wipe occured - I didn't INTENTIONALLY perform a delete + 
> purge...but it happened.
> 
> Is there a way of configuring Dovecot to ensure that any delete 
> operation specified by a client results in a "move to Trash" as a 
> precaution?  Instead of relying on the client to perform it?

Not directly, but the lazy_expunge plugin may be useful in such
situations. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge


Regards,
Pascal
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