Automated purge of deleted email items

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:00:48PM -0500, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> I've been tasked with a project that I'm not quite sure how to
> approach.  I have a several hundred mail users (IMAP) that aren't
> exactly power users.  Many of them don't seem to understand how to
> purge deleted email in their mail clients (mostly Outlook or Outlook
> Express).  Is there a way to automate this process on the server, such
> that once a day (via cron) the system cycles through all the mailboxes
> and automagically purges any items marked as deleted?

There are settings in the mail clients that will purge on close
automatically.  Why is that setting not enabled by default?  It is not
the imap servers job to decide when to purge messages, that is the
responsibility of the client.

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