I'm running Dovecot IMAP and POP3 on Debian. But it look's like it's keeping mail in the user's inbox on the server until it's deleted by the user. I thought POP servers deleted email as soon as it was downloaded, but apparently not, according to dovecot.org.
Is there something in the Dovecot conf I can do to get rid of all this redundant crud? I see several conversations on the 'Net about "quotas" that look like they might keep stuff around for a few days or weeks, then delete. That sounds lovely, but I don't understand them enough to try to make it happen. dovecot -n: > # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S > protocols: imap pop3 > ssl_listen: * > ssl_disable: yes > disable_plaintext_auth: no > login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login > login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login > login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login > login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login > login_max_processes_count: 12 > mail_privileged_group: mail > mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap > mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap > mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 > mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap > mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap > mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 > pop3_uidl_format(default): > pop3_uidl_format(imap): > pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv > auth default: > mechanisms: plain login > passdb: > driver: pam > userdb: > driver: passwd > socket: > type: listen > client: > path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth > mode: 432 > user: postfix > group: postfix -- Glenn English
