--On Monday, September 8, 2003 13:08 -0400 Dan Kolis <dank@hq.lindsayelec.com> wrote:
| Another way to do this is via EHLO and then your client would have to | subscribe to the "feature" of some timed self delete or you would be | denied access totally. This would make sure the user is given a heads up | on the whole thing. | | This would be super clean. Your program (in your national language) warns | you the server is going to enforce some message removal method. | | With the excellent thinking in the development of these... I'm surprised | that's not how it works.
See RFC 2449 - POP3 EXTENSIONS. In particular the EXPIRE capability. That allows a server to advertise its message retention policy. I'm not sure how many clients/servers currently implement it, but it is there as an official extension.
-- Cyrus Daboo