dovecot - Mar 2011 - lazy_expunge, 2 questions

Hello List,

do some tests with lazy_expunge
i have 2 short questions.
is it possible to set folder for expunged messages to read-only so no user 
is possible to really delete them?

i can use mdbox for expunged-folder. but would'nt it be more functional to 
use maildir to have possibility to delete separate mails?
when using mdbox the clean up by cron would effect always multiple messages 
with different ages?

Thanks,
Hajo

On 1.3.2011, at 14.36, Hajo Locke wrote:
> do some tests with lazy_expunge
> i have 2 short questions.
> is it possible to set folder for expunged messages to read-only so no user
is possible to really delete them?
Currently there's no easy way to do this. You can of course hide the
lazy-expunge namespace from users by giving it a random name so users can't
find it. A good proper solution would be a namespace-wide default ACL, but
there's no support for that yet.
> i can use mdbox for expunged-folder. but would'nt it be more functional
to use maildir to have possibility to delete separate mails?
> when using mdbox the clean up by cron would effect always multiple messages
with different ages?
You could use maildir, but it would make expunging slower. Anyway, I don't
really understand the problem. You can delete separate mails from mdbox just as
well as from maildir. "doveadm purge" won't do anything to
lazy-expunged messages, you first have to separately expunge them from there as
well.