[gentoo-user] Automatic email deletion

[gentoo-user] Automatic email deletion

[Grant]

Can anyone tell me how my old email is most likely being deleted?  I'm
using courier-imap and postfix.  I'd like to keep the old stuff for
longer than 2 weeks, but I'm not sure where to specify this.

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic email deletion

[Norberto Bensa]

Grant wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how my old email is most likely being deleted?  I'm

I didn't know courier does that. We used to have courier installed at work (I 
replaced it with cyrus) but it never deleted emails.

Perhaps you have a cronjob?

Regards,
Norberto
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Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic email deletion

[Dirk Heinrichs]

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Am Sonntag, 23. März 2008 schrieb Grant:
> Can anyone tell me how my old email is most likely being deleted?  I'm
> using courier-imap and postfix.  I'd like to keep the old stuff for
> longer than 2 weeks, but I'm not sure where to specify this.

Isn't this a feature of the _client_?

Bye...

	Dirk

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Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic email deletion

[Neil Walker]

Grant wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how my old email is most likely being deleted?  I'm
> using courier-imap and postfix.  I'd like to keep the old stuff for
> longer than 2 weeks, but I'm not sure where to specify this.
>   

Courier-imap NEVER deletes mail in my experience. That is the whole 
point of IMAP. Mail is only deleted by the email client. ;)

Be lucky,

Neil


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Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic email deletion

[Grant]

>  > Can anyone tell me how my old email is most likely being deleted?  I'm
>  > using courier-imap and postfix.  I'd like to keep the old stuff for
>  > longer than 2 weeks, but I'm not sure where to specify this.
>  >
>
>  Courier-imap NEVER deletes mail in my experience. That is the whole
>  point of IMAP. Mail is only deleted by the email client. ;)
>
>  Be lucky,
>
>  Neil

So claws-mail is automatically deleting old messages in the Trash
folder?  I don't see a config option anywhere.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic email deletion

[Stroller]

On 23 Mar 2008, at 22:10, Grant wrote:

>>> Can anyone tell me how my old email is most likely being  
>>> deleted?  I'm
>>> using courier-imap and postfix.  I'd like to keep the old stuff for
>>> longer than 2 weeks, but I'm not sure where to specify this.
>>>
>>
>>  Courier-imap NEVER deletes mail in my experience. That is the whole
>>  point of IMAP. Mail is only deleted by the email client. ;)
>>
>
> So claws-mail is automatically deleting old messages in the Trash
> folder?  I don't see a config option anywhere.

You didn't state _in the trash_ folder in your previous message.
(I guessed, tho'!  :P Looks like the other respondents didn't!)

   $ sudo grep -i trash /etc/courier-imap/imapd
   ##NAME: IMAP_TRASHFOLDERNAME:0
   # The name of the magic trash Folder.  For MSOE compatibility,
   # you can set IMAP_TRASHFOLDERNAME="Deleted Items".
   # IMPORTANT:  If you change this, you must also change  
IMAP_EMPTYTRASH
   IMAP_TRASHFOLDERNAME=Trash
   ##NAME: IMAP_EMPTYTRASH:0
   # IMAP_EMPTYTRASH is a comma-separated list of folder:days.  The  
default
   # setting, below, purges 7 day old messages from the Trash folder.
   # IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7,Sent:30
   # as shown by ls).  It is perfectly ordinary to see stuff in Trash  
that's
   # changed when the file is moved to the Trash folder (and at other  
times too).
   #IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7
   IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:14,Junk.Possible:14
   ##NAME: IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH:0
   # Set IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH to move expunged messages to  
Trash.  This
   # mail from trash.  Trash can be manually expunged as usually, and  
mail
   # will get automatically expunged from Trash according to  
IMAP_EMPTYTRASH.
   IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH=0
   $

Stroller.

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