On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 15:52 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 06 June 2008 15:22:03 Craig White wrote: > > .I really don't like default configuration of > > IMAP client applications that 'MOVE' mail into a 'Deleted Items' or > > 'Trash' folder when the user clicks delete. I find many users never > > 'empty the trash' (or EXPUNGE) and the mail just sits there. > > First, I make sure that deletion goes to the IMAP server's trash, not to > local. Then I put a 30 day expiry in kmail on all messages over 30 days but > not flagged Important. That moves them to the server's Trash. I have a 60 > day expiry on the trash. If I haven't needed it by then I'm pretty certain I > won't need it at all :-) > > There have been times, just a few, when I couldn't find the message I wanted > to refer back to, and have found them in the Trash folder. Belt, > braces/suspenders and a bit of string :-) ---- The issue isn't knowledgeable users like yourself but rather the opposite...un-knowledgeable users. That said...you are opting for your client application (Kmail) to manage things that a more robust IMAP server like cyrus-imapd can handle by itself and when you have a lot of users, it's too painful to get them to manage their settings when you can handle things like this on an administrator level. I have one customer with a fair number of users in the office...all of whom use IMAP except for the owner who insists on using POP3 and has several thousand deleted e-mails in his 'Trash' sort of just in case...It's a real PITA because he's using Entourage (Macintosh) and like Outlook...it stores everything in one file and when it crosses the 4 Gb file size...it implodes. People do strange things with e-mail. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
