[Dovecot] Idea: POP3 deletion as a flag

[Stephan Bosch]

On 5/3/2013 6:14 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> GMail doesn't delete mails when POP3 client issues a DELE command for it. Instead they just become invisible for future POP3 sessions, but they still exist for IMAP/webmail. The same could be implemented pretty easily for Dovecot:
>
>   - Add a new setting to enable this: pop3_deleted_flag = $POP3Deleted
>   - When DELEting a message, add this flag to the message.
>   - When listing messages, skip all messages that have this flag.

Yes, very useful.

>   - Also hide this flag from IMAP clients(?)
Hmm.. why?

Also, from Sieve I can imagine it could be useful to be able to hide 
certain messages from POP3 by setting this flag.

Regards,

Stephan.