On 7/10/2011 7:23 PM, Glenn English wrote:
> Sigh. They were IMAP -- I was trying to help them -- I got them to switch to
> POP because their email directories were getting too big; they never delete
> anything. I was hoping that POP would fix the server's directory size, and
> they could keep
Sunday, July 10, 2011, 7:09:37 PM, Michael wrote:
> On 07/10/2011 07:59 PM, Glenn English wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 10, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>
>>> You can do things on the server to mitigate damage from people who
>>> check the "leave messages on server for eternity" box, but
>>>
I found it. It's in the POP config in iMail -- I was looking at the IMAP
configuration. I'm embarrassed and I apologize for being a n00b.
Thanks very much for attempting to answer a lame question.
--
Glenn English
On Jul 10, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> You could also run a cron job or maybe use the expire plugin to get rid
> of old messages, but that would likely piss someone off eventually.
About 15 seconds after they lose a picture of somebody's baby.
> And, I guess, if they're leaving
On Jul 10, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Duane Hill wrote:
> Is the email client used to read email set to leave mail on the server
> for a period of time or indefinitely?
As far as I can tell, yes it is (Apple Mail seems to not have anything about
that option, and it defaults to "keeping stuff for eternit
On 07/10/2011 07:59 PM, Glenn English wrote:
>
> On Jul 10, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>
>> You can do things on the server to mitigate damage from people who
>> check the "leave messages on server for eternity" box, but
>> generally, this is a client preference.
>
> What things c
Sunday, July 10, 2011, 6:45:31 PM, Glenn wrote:
> 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, accordin
On Jul 10, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> You can do things on the server to mitigate damage from people who check
> the "leave messages on server for eternity" box, but generally, this is
> a client preference.
What things can I do on the server? Many of my people use Macs, and the
On 07/10/2011 07:45 PM, Glenn English wrote:
> 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
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 c
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