[Dovecot] problem about pop3 using dovecot

Daniel Parthey daniel.parthey at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Sat Sep 8 00:08:33 EEST 2012


bmalik wrote:
> I upgraded dovecot from 1.1 to 2.1.8
> 
> pop3/imap works but i have a problem.
> 
> i use pop3 protocol on outlook 2010 for my account. and i set keep my mails
> on the server for 5 days or until i delete them.
> These settings were working old dovecot1.1. But when i upgraded it to 2.1.8.
> if i even delete a mail from outlook the server doesn't delete or old mails
> are not deleted.

Dovecot does not remove expunged mails from mdbox automatically.
You can run doveadm purge via cron to remove unreferenced messages:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Purge

Regards
Daniel
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