[Dovecot] POP3 and mail retention

[Steffen Kaiser]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, Roman Gelfand wrote:

> 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, and recognize that this email has been
> moved from inbox, etc..  If all of this is doable, would setting
> outlook to delete the email after 14 days work? delete email from the
> server when emptying deleted folder?

Check out: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge

I do not use it, but you can search the list for expierences. Note the 
remark at the top "The plugin itself doesn't clean up the expunged 
messages, you'll have to do it some other way (see below)."

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)

iQEVAwUBUx8jUXD1/YhP6VMHAQImPAgAzSpQaxCR9B0x7XdwzI2VncE1TL74Q189
8+oGLaN5y7FB8dj4bDIcgjiQfjKUnggCKAQNpulIi2LPd6PGkaXFh0erQjEjsu+R
CSeMg3zfr9GAB8vIT4U3xW+GvzLPxK2lbZvQtVVgQens5WxY4a4cePZhUU4LMb96
4eGzQnUend7q3+gICzZ9pKoBl2yOmCbZt4pbGmhWQlMb20wX75f/psJ/8z4eamve
tkmOIY847NsuREVUjnedKmv8ktHaeCprgoTTkHaW6gVZdk52jrjpR62AxcmIJyNY
uH/W+qXsktjtPhJByCCqFrGcSRbuD1Y6UfEoBaFCvb68Jym6ylruVA==
=GUKM
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----