On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 09:15 +0200, Alexander Chekalin wrote: > in my company we have a mailbox that holds a copy of every message that > our SMTP processed. While it eats a lot of space, it saved us several > times when, you may imaging, user "suddenly" deleted the most important > message in his life and call our IT guys for help. The mailbox contains > "folders" for each day (like 2011-02-10), which keeps mailings for that > day only.
Besides the archiving options others mentioned, there's http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge