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

[Seth Mattinen]

Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης wrote:
> O/H Timo Sirainen έγραψε:
>> 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.
>>
>>   
> Hi there
> 
> Definitely imap4 is more sophisticated protocol offering many useful
> features. By no means did I try to compare pop3 versus imap.
> I am using imap , I have imap servers configured and I suggest to
> everyone to use imap.
> I just had this question regarding multiple MUA's configuration on the
> option "leave messages on server" on the same account, and if there
> was an option to cease the mess that different time period setting (on
> DELE command) can cause..
> 

No. Whichever deletes first deletes the message for good.

~Seth