Bill Cole wrote:
At 7:24 AM -0700 6/25/07, Don Russell imposed structure on a stream
of electrons, yielding:
I access e-mail from different PCs, typically using Thunderbird
e-mail client.
Thunderbird has a a "retention policy" it can set on a folder by
folder basis. Policies such as how long to keep messages for, or how
many messages to keep.
Is there a way to set those policies on the server itself?
Dovecot itself does not have such a facility, but if you use Maildir
it is a fairly straightforward bit of scripting to whack message files
greater than a particular age because they are in predictable places
and have names starting with their delivery time as a Unix epoch time.
Thanks Bill,
Right now I use mbox format, my last conversion effort to maildir didn't
go very well to say the least.
Since scripting will be required anyway, I think I'll work on a tool
that uses the IMAP protocol to accomplish what I want.
Then such a script could be useful regardless of mbox/maildir storage
methods.
Cheers,
Don
