----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Crispin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Scott Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: server initiated auto-purge?
> Most clients have an "expunge when quitting" option. Perhaps Outlook has
> such an option. If it doesn't, well...it's one more reason not to use
> Outlook.
>
> It isn't *architectually* offensive for an expunge to be implicitly
> performed as a result of logging out. In fact, that is how POP works.
> Nothing in the IMAP standard prohibits a server from doing this.
>
> However, the world has evolved in a way that many users would be quite
> unhappy if an expunge is ever implicitly performed by a server, even at
> LOGOUT time. Most users want client control over expunging.
>
> I don't know of any server which offers this as a feature. Thus, you
> would have to implement it yourself.
>
> The simplest thing, if you are using UW imapd (as you seem to be), would
> be to change the mail_close() call in the LOGOUT handling code, e.g.
> change:
> else if (!strcmp (cmd,"LOGOUT")) {
> if (arg) response = badarg;
> else { /* time to say farewell */
> server_init (NIL,NIL,NIL,SIG_IGN,SIG_IGN,SIG_IGN,SIG_IGN);
> if (lastsel) fs_give ((void **) &lastsel);
> if (state == OPEN) stream = mail_close (stream);
> to something like
> else if (!strcmp (cmd,"LOGOUT")) {
> if (arg) response = badarg;
> else { /* time to say farewell */
> server_init (NIL,NIL,NIL,SIG_IGN,SIG_IGN,SIG_IGN,SIG_IGN);
> if (lastsel) fs_give ((void **) &lastsel);
> /* auto-expunge at LOGOUT time */
> if (state == OPEN) stream = mail_close_full (stream,CL_EXPUNGE);
>
> I'm of two minds on this question. I don't think that a user should
> delete a message if he is unwilling to face the possibility of an expunge
> happening. But I also understand why users may want to logout without
> expunging.
>
> -- Mark --
>
> http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
> Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
> Si vis pacem, para bellum.
>
