[Dovecot] Idea: POP3 deletion as a flag

Kelsey Cummings kgc at corp.sonic.net
Sat May 4 01:59:11 EEST 2013


On 2013-05-03 15:44, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> I didn't ask what their main reason for this was, but for me it would
> be: "Oops, I accidentally configured my new email client as POP3
> instead of IMAP, and now it deleted everything from my INBOX." With
> lazy_expunge the user would have to explicitly go and undelete the
> mails, and it would also undelete those mails that were intentionally
> deleted. With this feature nothing at all would go wrong on
> IMAP/webmail side.

Ah, that makes more sense now.  We're only using lazy_expunge for POP3 
but with a namespace visible to IMAP so a POP3 user can restore a 
message using webmail/IMAP if needed.

-K




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