On Dec 3, 2009, at 6:56 AM, OBRAM - Tomasz Przewlucki wrote:
> I'm not a programmer and don't know if such feature is hard to code but
> theoretically extended expire plugin could work in that way.
> It could use new variable f.e. ARCHIVE (similar to ALT ) to select location
> for archive and i think ALT and ARCHIVE could exclude each other from using
> together (for easier implementation, ARCHIVE can play role of ALT with such
> difference that it's contents wouldn't show in standard INBOX and rest of
> standard folders.).
I don't think any of this is necessary. You'd simply create another namespace
for the archives, something like:
namespace private {
location = dbox:~/dbox
}
namespace private {
prefix = archive/
location = dbox:~/dbox/archive
}
So now the only problem is how to get the expire plugin to do the moves.
> Are there any chances to implement such functionality into dovecot in near
> future (4-5 months or so) ?
It wouldn't be very difficult.. Basically the mail_expunge() call in
expire-tool.c would need to copy the message to archive before the expunge. And
then it would need more configuration code. I'll see about adding this to v2.0,
but I'm a bit busy now..
