> On 15 Dec 2018, at 03:11, Jochen Bern <jochen.b...@binect.de> wrote:
>
> On 12/15/2018 12:34 AM, @lbutlr wrote:
>> On 14 Dec 2018, at 16:30, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote:
>>> Is it possible to override the POP3 delete on download command and make
>>> sure that messages stay on the server for at least X hours or X days?
>>> It is important that the messages be around long enough to hit a snapshot
>>> cycle (using rsnapshot to backup ever hour).
>>
>> Now that I think about it, even better would be a way to move the messages
>> into an archive box when they are downloaded, this way they will be entirely
>> invisible from the POP3 access, and I can use normal expiry functions to
>> clean out that archive after backup.
>
> From a data flow (and privacy protection) POV, that wouldn't be much
> different anymore from having *the MTA* feed a copy of (all incoming)
> e-mails directly into an archiving mechanism, would it?
No, but it is only needed for the times someone access the account via POP3
without “leave on server".
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