Re: [Dovecot] Forcibly emptying a POP3 mailbox

2010-02-05 Thread Charles Marcus
Stan Hoeppner wrote: In my experience, the only (intelligent) users who leave a copy on the server are those with multiple computers and a provider who offers only POP, and not IMAP or webmail access to the mailbox. Agree - and they also usually have *one* of those computers set to delete

Re: [Dovecot] Forcibly emptying a POP3 mailbox

2010-02-05 Thread Dmitri V. Ivanov
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 06:41:34PM +0200, R??zvan Sandu wrote: Please provide a suggestion for the following situation: - I am running a stock POP3 dovecot server, on Fedora 12 (dovecot version 1.2.9) .. .. However, there are users that check the infamous ???Leave a copy on the

Re: [Dovecot] Forcibly emptying a POP3 mailbox

2010-02-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 19:37 +0300, Dmitri V. Ivanov wrote: Well-well-well. I don't know the situation with dovecot POP3 server, but look on RFC 2449 and especially expire extension. I think there is other question and it is right one: Can dovecot pop3 server deal with pop3 extensions

Re: [Dovecot] Forcibly emptying a POP3 mailbox

2010-02-05 Thread Dmitri V. Ivanov
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 08:25:01PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 19:37 +0300, Dmitri V. Ivanov wrote: Well-well-well. I don't know the situation with dovecot POP3 server, but look on RFC 2449 and especially expire extension. I think there is other question and it

Re: [Dovecot] Forcibly emptying a POP3 mailbox

2010-02-04 Thread Răzvan Sandu
Hello, Thanks a lot, but the problem here are not the IMAP users accessing the server via squirrelmail. Few people use this. What I mainly want to avoid are *POP3* users checking the „Leave a copy on the server” checkmark. I need a way of automatically performing the DELE command at server

Re: [Dovecot] Forcibly emptying a POP3 mailbox

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 04.02.2010 12:39, schrieb Răzvan Sandu: Hello, Thanks a lot, but the problem here are not the IMAP users accessing the server via squirrelmail. Few people use this. What I mainly want to avoid are *POP3* users checking the „Leave a copy on the server” checkmark. I need a way of

Re: [Dovecot] Forcibly emptying a POP3 mailbox

2010-02-04 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Răzvan Sandu wrote: Thanks a lot, but the problem here are not the IMAP users accessing the server via squirrelmail. Few people use this. Er, it doesn't matter if just few users use IMAP, but that the solution has to cope

Re: [Dovecot] Forcibly emptying a POP3 mailbox

2010-02-04 Thread Răzvan Sandu
Steffen Kaiser wrote: Well, I know that the client knows it has *successfully* downloaded messages, but how does the server know? Just to sent down some packets through the wire does not mean success. Thanks, I see... so the server knows nothing about the success or insuccess of retrieving

Re: [Dovecot] Forcibly emptying a POP3 mailbox

2010-02-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Răzvan Sandu put forth on 2/4/2010 5:39 AM: I need a way of automatically performing the DELE command at server level, just after a POP3 user *succesfully* downloaded his messages via POP3... And this is going to really upset customers who access a single POP account from a work PC, a home

[Dovecot] Forcibly emptying a POP3 mailbox

2010-02-03 Thread Răzvan Sandu
Hello, I've recently saw a discussion on this list, about a standardised way of emptying POP3 mailboxes on the server - but no solution came up. Please provide a suggestion for the following situation: - I am running a stock POP3 dovecot server, on Fedora 12 (dovecot version 1.2.9) -

Re: [Dovecot] Forcibly emptying a POP3 mailbox

2010-02-03 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
you can always use softquotas (or Maildir quotas) for acchieving quotas on a virtual environment ... which dovecot can handle pretty well. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/Maildir Em 03/02/2010 14:41, Răzvan Sandu escreveu: Filesystem quotas are not an option in this scenario, since the