On 26.2.2012, at 13.52, Ed W wrote: > On 25/02/2012 00:39, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On 24.2.2012, at 19.44, julio...@fisica.uh.cu wrote: >> >>> I need some help with the dovecot configuration. I want to remove >>> downloaded messages from Mail Server once the messages have been >>> successfully downloaded by pop3-clients, even when the clients have been >>> configured to save copy of messages in the Server. >> Not possible. >> > > If you were thinking about longer term TODOs then I have a similar problem > (just adding a "me too"...) > > In my industry, competing solutions offer a kind of server side "been > downloaded" notification when customers have actually downloaded (ie "read" > via POP) the message. The customers are all on the far side of expensive > satellite links, so this serves as an inexpensive proxy for "message read" > notifications.
What does the notification do? > Is it feasible to implement both of these solutions using the current plugin > architecture? Yes. > I think our competition implement such features because they are Exchange > based and I believe you can write server side hooks in various scripting > languages quite easily (I personally don't like the idea, but someone > obviously did it once and it rolled from there...) - this obviously harking > to the "is it feasible to imagine some higher level hook solution for simpler > plugin creation" suggestion from a few days ago? > > All these "do something when it's accessed" or "do something when it's > deleted" problems all feel kind of related to me (ie we need some hook which > runs on a per message basis). Perhaps someone smarter than me can think of a > better way to unify them? Dovecot has a "notify" plugin that makes things like this pretty easy to implement, but it still needs C coding.
