[Dovecot] POP3 and mail retention

[Reindl Harald]

Am 11.03.2014 14:31, schrieb Roman Gelfand:
> Using outlook 2010 as mail client, I have noticed that once an email
> is moved from inbox, it is deleted from the cur/ directory on the
> server.  Is there a pop3 setting on dovecot that would keep emails,
> with possible retention period

that is not the job of the server

* you have a setting "leave messages on server" in any MUA
* you can set for how long on any MUA
* if the MUA is configured to delete you MUST NOT do anything else on the server

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