RE: autoexpunge clarification

2016-09-01 Thread Michael Fox
Thanks Philon. In one of my situations, the potential for such old mail in accounts where the user is not receiving new mail or logging in is large. For example, one application is for an emergency auxiliary mail service. It can be heavily used during training, drills and, of course, emergenc

Re: autoexpunge clarification

2016-09-01 Thread Philon
Hi Michael you are correct I guess based on your assumptions. autoexpunge kicks in on user interaction either by email delivery or a user checking in. If both does not occour then no cleanup will happen. Question would be if there is that much to cleanup in this case. A user not logging in for

RE: autoexpunge clarification

2016-08-31 Thread Michael Fox
ecot.org] On Behalf Of Philon > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 12:41 AM > To: Michael Fox > Cc: Dovecot Mailing List > Subject: Re: autoexpunge clarification > > Hi Micheal, > > the article is fine if you continue reading it to the next bullet points > about IMAP, POP3 and

Re: autoexpunge clarification

2016-08-31 Thread Philon
Hi Micheal, the article is fine if you continue reading it to the next bullet points about IMAP, POP3 and LMTP. In short words… When the user quits and thus closes his mailbox/connection, Dovecot quickly looks through the folders to clean up mails which are older then configured days. In the

autoexpunge clarification

2016-08-30 Thread Michael Fox
I'm trying to understand autoexpunge, but the documentation is just not clear. Hopefully, someone can clear up a few questions. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings says the following: autoexpunge=: (v2.2.20+) Automatically at user deinitialization expunge all mails in this mailbox whos