Re: [Dovecot] My old email is not stored

2013-04-11 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2013-04-11 5:00 AM, HylkeB wrote: I see now, took some time for me to sink in. Is there any way on the server to disable the pop3 protocol, so all email users cant accidently use pop3 and delete all their old emails? I suppose i would have to do something like the following on the server:

Re: [Dovecot] My old email is not stored

2013-04-11 Thread HylkeB
>> Well, receiving ALL mails again, might not be too handy, but 14 days >> is a quite short time. So can i change the pop3 settings so old >> emails are stored for e.g. 3 months instead of 14 days? And just >> curious, where can i disable the configuration that pop3 deletes >> received me

Re: [Dovecot] My old email is not stored

2013-04-10 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 10.04.2013 14:22, schrieb HylkeB: >> normally POP3 is configured to delete received messages >> after some days/weeks and it is not smart to disable this >> becuase if you have your local mailarchive and get a new >> computer you will receive ALL your mails again > > Well, receiving ALL m

Re: [Dovecot] My old email is not stored

2013-04-10 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2013-04-10 8:22 AM, HylkeB wrote: Well, receiving ALL mails again, might not be too handy, but 14 days > is a quite short time. So can i change the pop3 settings so old > emails are stored for e.g. 3 months instead of 14 days? And just > curious, where can i disable the configuration that p

Re: [Dovecot] My old email is not stored

2013-04-10 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 10.04.2013 14:22, schrieb HylkeB: > And just curious, where can i disable the configuration that pop3 deletes > received messages? thats a function of your pop3 clients, configure it there Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerst

Re: [Dovecot] My old email is not stored

2013-04-10 Thread HylkeB
>normally POP3 is configured to delete received messages >after some days/weeks and it is not smart to disable this >becuase if you have your local mailarchive and get a new >computer you will receive ALL your mails again Well, receiving ALL mails again, might not be too handy, but 14 days is

Re: [Dovecot] My old email is not stored

2013-04-10 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2013-04-10 8:05 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: normally POP3 is configured to delete received messages after some > days/weeks and it is not smart to disable this becuase if you have > your local mailarchive and get a new computer you will receive ALL > your mails again Actually, normally POP3 d

Re: [Dovecot] My old email is not stored

2013-04-10 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 10.04.2013 13:58, schrieb HylkeB: > If it is a client issue, than thats fine. it is > But then i wonder what the vmail/domain.com/email_name/Maildir/cur folder is > for, because in there i can find the inbox of the last 14 days. Cant my > emails be stored there for a longer (or infinite) tim

Re: [Dovecot] My old email is not stored

2013-04-10 Thread HylkeB
If it is a client issue, than thats fine. But then i wonder what the vmail/domain.com/email_name/Maildir/cur folder is for, because in there i can find the inbox of the last 14 days. Cant my emails be stored there for a longer (or infinite) time? It is not really an issue that i need to save my em

Re: [Dovecot] My old email is not stored

2013-04-10 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, HylkeB wrote: But the thing is, everything worked just fine, until I found out that old emails were missing, only emails of a few months old exist on my server. I have no idea if this is a setting in dovecot, postfix or debian,

Re: [Dovecot] My old email is not stored

2013-04-10 Thread Urban Loesch
Hi, perhaps you are using POP3 in your mail client and have you have enabled the setting to delete mails on server after a few months. Change to IMAP and you leave all messages on the server. reagards urban On 10.04.2013 11:20, HylkeB wrote: Hi, Im have not much experience with dovecot, p

[Dovecot] My old email is not stored

2013-04-10 Thread HylkeB
Hi, Im have not much experience with dovecot, postfix or debian, which i am using for my email server. But the thing is, everything worked just fine, until I found out that old emails were missing, only emails of a few months old exist on my server. I have no idea if this is a setting in dovecot,