[Dovecot] Idea: POP3 deletion as a flag

[Odhiambo Washington]

What happens to quotas in places where it is enforced? Where does the
undeleted mail go? Does it still count towards the quota?


On 3 May 2013 19:14, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> 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.
>  - Also hide this flag from IMAP clients(?)
>
> Thoughts? Probably 20 lines of new code.
>
>


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