Re: [Dovecot] keep users from deleting email

2008-04-14 Thread Adam Williams
Bill Cole wrote: 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

Re: [Dovecot] keep users from deleting email

2008-04-14 Thread Adam Williams
Charles Marcus wrote: Then you are using the wrong tool. For legal purposes, your message archives should be completely separate from your normal mail store. Set up a parallel delivery system for your archiver. Do you mean like, Postfix's "always_bcc = [EMAIL PROTECTED]" option? But, then

Re: [Dovecot] keep users from deleting email

2008-04-14 Thread Adam Williams
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 ap

Re: [Dovecot] keep users from deleting email

2008-04-14 Thread Adam Williams
Charles Marcus wrote: I was thinking about a possible plugin - call it maybe 'fake-delete or something - that would move all messages that a user deletes to a hidden folder in their maildir, for admin purposes... you could also use the expire plugin to keep this from growing indefinitely. But

[Dovecot] keep users from deleting email

2008-04-14 Thread Adam Williams
I looked on the dovecot website, but didn't find an answer. With dovecot 1.0, is there a way to keep users from deleting their email? So that when they click the delete button on their email client, nothing happens/dovecot refuses to delete email, etc?

Re: [Dovecot] target doesn't allow inferior mailboxes

2007-07-11 Thread Adam Williams
Makes sense. Any solutions other then using a different MUA? Scott Silva wrote: folder. But if you are using mbox, you can't do that, because the trash folder is also mbox so it errors out. Thunderbird does the same thing if told to delete to the server side trash.

[Dovecot] target doesn't allow inferior mailboxes

2007-07-11 Thread Adam Williams
Using Seamonkey as my email client, and IMAP to check mail. If I create a new IMAP folder, and then delete it, I get the error: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Target mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes. Tried a google search, didn't really come up with a