On 11.5.2013, at 19.47, Daniel Parthey <daniel.part...@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote: >> Kelsey already mentioned that lazy_expunge plugin has similar issues, and >> nobody has mentioned privacy concerns related to that.. I guess there should >> be something about it in the wiki. Also mdbox format doesn't physically >> delete the data until doveadm purge is run (if ever). So this isn't the first >> such feature. > > Some of our users are using pop3 collectors to fetch (and delete) the mails, > while other users are using mobile phones and might want to use this feature. > > If the pop3_delete_flag option is globally enabled, will the pop3 user > be able to delete any pop3 mails and not be billed for the storage? > Our POP3 customers really don't want to pay for emails which they > don't see and don't want to keep on the server, but the pop3 collector > will not connect via IMAP to the server to finally expunge the mails. > > So this rises a quota/storage accounting question for pop3-only users. It gets counted towards quota. If you don't want that, you could use lazy-expunge plugin, although its behavior is different. Anyway, implemented this to v2.2: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/5984de096e3e
