At 9:36 AM -0500 4/14/08, Adam Williams wrote:
Bill Cole wrote:
Presumably you're users are all using IMAP, since the question
doesn't really make sense for POP users, whose view of mail is
entirely local to their machines, not the server.
I'd argue that having the sort of in-your-face dysfunction you
describe is probably not the best approach unless user antagonism
is one of your goals. You would probably be better off making a
user's deletion into a server-side hiding/archiving. The "Lazy
Expunge" plugin can do that.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge
Thanks, I agree with you. However, I just do what management tells
me to do, and we're trying to get Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
compliant with our data.
Um, really?
I've had a little experience with SOx, HIPAA, GLBA, and Federal
E-Discovery compliance projects, and I've never heard that SOx
applied at all to state agencies or that it requires anyone to
archive all email forever. In fact, doing so as a matter of normal
policy may be a very bad idea under the E-Discovery rules. I'm
certainly no lawyer, but your management may want to find better ones
than they seem to have...
Lazy Expunge only operates on Maildir format, and while dovecot's
website has instructions for converting from mbox to Maildir, mbox
works pretty good for us, and I don't want to fix what isn't broken.
You definitely need to be aware of the fact that one of the downsides
of mbox is performance and resource demands as the mbox files grow.
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Bill Cole
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