On 3.5.2013, at 22.40, Professa Dementia <profe...@dementianati.com> wrote:
> Be careful about adding features just for the sake of adding features. > Dovecot is already a powerful, but quite complex. This would make it even > more complex and non-standard. POP and IMAP clients do not expect this > behavior from the server. Also, I have never heard anyone request this > feature. Dovecot won't do that by default. And this feature was requested by a large customer of ours, so it is needed.. I was mainly wondering about details. > Google is large enough that they are under scrutiny and have to obey EU > privacy laws. However, adding this feature to Dovecot could put smaller > email operators in violation of those laws. Not deleting emails when the > client says to, is effectively archiving, and data that is archived is > regulated by EU privacy laws. Lots of legal problems have arisen as a result > of this. I'll add a comment to the setting that enabling it may violate (EU) privacy laws.
