Overrideing pop delete?

Robert L Mathews lists at tigertech.com
Sat Dec 15 02:09:38 EET 2018


On 12/14/18 3:34 PM, @lbutlr wrote:

> Now that I think about it, even better would be a way to move the messages into an archive box when they are downloaded, this way they will be entirely invisible from the POP3 access, and I can use normal expiry functions to clean out that archive after backup.

We do exactly this using the "Lazy Expunge" plugin:

 https://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge

Despite the IMAP-sounding "expunge" in the name, it works for all
deletions, including POP3.

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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/


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