[Dovecot] Question about the pop3 feature "leave messages on server for a certain period of time"

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 11:57 +0300, Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης wrote:
> I am missing something on the the pop3 "leave messages" rationale.
> 
> Although the UIDL feature solves for the MUA the problem  "whch mails 
> should be downloaded",
> how the duration that these mails should be kept on server, say 10 days 
> for one MUA and 20 days for another MUA for the same account, 
> is resolved on the server?

I guess you could configure Dovecot to delete mails older than n days
with expire plugin: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire

But I've no idea if it's really a good idea to do that. Some clients
might freak out. Oh and expire plugin would delete messages regardless
of whether client has ever even downloaded them.

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