dovecot - Sep 2009 - Question about the pop3 feature "leave messages on server for a certain period of time"

Hi  all

I am missing something on the the pop3 "leave messages" rationale.

Although the UIDL feature solves for the MUA the problem  "whch mails 
should be downloaded",
how the duration that these mails should be kept on server, say 10 days 
for one MUA and 20 days for another MUA for the same account, 
is resolved on the server?

thanks in advance

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Hi,

if I understand correctly, this feature is 100% client side, so the 
server does nothing at all. When client connects to the server, the 
client checks mails date and deletes some of them based on its own 
settings.

HTH

El Viernes 11 Septiembre 2009 a las 10:57, ????????? ??????????? 
escribi?:
> Hi  all
>
> I am missing something on the the pop3 "leave messages"
rationale.
>
> Although the UIDL feature solves for the MUA the problem  "whch
> mails should be downloaded",
> how the duration that these mails should be kept on server, say 10
> days for one MUA and 20 days for another MUA for the same account,
> is resolved on the server?
>
> thanks in advance

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Joseba Torre. Vicegerencia de TICs, ?rea de Explotaci?n

Hi
I can clearly understand this, but what if we have two MUAs with 
different time period settings
on the same account , 10 days the first and 20 days the second.
The first when it will be connected on the 10th day it will delete on 
server all messages, so the second will not get anything at all
Correct?

D.

> if I understand correctly, this feature is 100% client side, so the 
> server does nothing at all. When client connects to the server, the 
> client checks mails date and deletes some of them based on its own 
> settings.
>
> HTH
>
> El Viernes 11 Septiembre 2009 a las 10:57, ????????? ??????????? 
> escribi?:
>   
>> Hi  all
>>
>> I am missing something on the the pop3 "leave messages"
rationale.
>>
>> Although the UIDL feature solves for the MUA the problem  "whch
>> mails should be downloaded",
>> how the duration that these mails should be kept on server, say 10
>> days for one MUA and 20 days for another MUA for the same account,
>> is resolved on the server?
>>
>> thanks in advance
>>     
>
>
>   

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On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 11:57 +0300, ????????? ???????????
wrote:
> I am missing something on the the pop3 "leave messages"
rationale.
> 
> Although the UIDL feature solves for the MUA the problem  "whch mails 
> should be downloaded",
> how the duration that these mails should be kept on server, say 10 days 
> for one MUA and 20 days for another MUA for the same account, 
> is resolved on the server?
I guess you could configure Dovecot to delete mails older than n days
with expire plugin: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire

But I've no idea if it's really a good idea to do that. Some clients
might freak out. Oh and expire plugin would delete messages regardless
of whether client has ever even downloaded them.

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O/H Timo Sirainen ??????:
> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 11:57 +0300, ????????? ??????????? wrote:
>   
>> I am missing something on the the pop3 "leave messages"
rationale.
>>
>> Although the UIDL feature solves for the MUA the problem  "whch
mails
>> should be downloaded",
>> how the duration that these mails should be kept on server, say 10 days
>> for one MUA and 20 days for another MUA for the same account, 
>> is resolved on the server?
>>     
>
> I guess you could configure Dovecot to delete mails older than n days
> with expire plugin: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire
>
> But I've no idea if it's really a good idea to do that. Some
clients
> might freak out. Oh and expire plugin would delete messages regardless
> of whether client has ever even downloaded them.
>
>   
Hi there

Definitely imap4 is more sophisticated protocol offering many useful 
features. By no means did I try to compare pop3 versus imap.
I am using imap , I have imap servers configured and I suggest to 
everyone to use imap.
I just had this question regarding multiple MUA's configuration on the 
option "leave messages on server" on the same account, and if there
was an option to cease the mess that different time period setting (on 
DELE command) can cause..

thanks for your replies
Dimitrios