Agreed, although it doesn't apply to sending emails from non European
citizens, only mailboxes containing European citizens' emails.
It's only enforceable if the citizenship of the holder of the mailbox is
known.
However, the assertion that if you are a company you are required to
delete old emails automatically according to GDPR is
not correct. In the UK which was aligned with the European GDPR there is
no such requirement; in fact, for accounting
and some legal reasons you are required to keep records for 6-7years, so
if those records eg orders, are emails or attachments in emails they
should be kept.
https://www.ionos.co.uk/startupguide/grow-your-business/retention-periods-for-business-records/
(the email retention section)
It is probably more an individual company policy using GDPR as an
"excuse". That is very commonly used as a reason
why a company can or cannot do something, regardless of the actual GDPR
law.
In this case, probably to keep user's mail boxes down to a sensible
size, although based on the above info, they may be breaking other laws
by deleting emails.
You can look up the actual gdpr requirements if you are interested. the
uk version is here
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/data-protection-principles/a-guide-to-the-data-protection-principles/the-principles/storage-limitation/
which show you can keep data as emails as long as you want, providing
you have a reason.
regards, Tim
On 28/02/2024 09:38, Rupert Gallagher via dovecot wrote:
First, dovecot is a global product, where not every company has to take care
about european nonense laws
Not true.
If you are a non-European company with European customers, then you are subject
to GDPR law.
-------- Original Message --------
On Feb 25, 2024, 16:35, Steven Varco < dovecot....@bbs.varco.ch> wrote:
> Am 25.02.2024 um 09:38 schrieb Rupert Gallagher via dovecot
dovecot.org>: > > >> Things like this should be done locally on the
Mailclient (MUA), IMHO. > > If you are a company, then you must
delete old e-mails automatically, by GDPR > law. In this case it
comes back to that this is better done by an external script. First,
dovecot is a global product, where not every company has to take care
about european nonense laws. :P Second, I would not want dovecot to
become a „fullsize all in one solution for everything“ (like MS
Exchange). I like the concept of doing one thing only, but doing this
good. Steven > > > -------- Original Message -------- > On Feb 21,
2024, 23:25, Steven Varco < dovecot....@bbs.varco.ch> wrote: > >> Am
21.02.2024 um 21:25 schrieb Peter Reinhold : > > Hi > I have been >
wondering about if Dovecot has a feature that would allow users to >
setup a > rule for a given folder, that mails older than X days
should be > deleted? > Or > is > this something that would need to be
done by an external script? Yes. It > goes beyond of what I expect
from an IMAP server. > I have looked a bit at > autoexpunge, and
while the basic feature looks to be > what I need, it doesn't > seem
to be configurable down to a specific folder on a > single user.
Things > like this should be done locally on the Mailclient (MUA),
IMHO. Steven - > - https://steven.varco.ch/ https://www.tech-
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