How about something that doesn't depend on the SENDER setting
something? I've set my system up to automatically "empty the trash"
after 30 days, and dump the "spam" folder after 2 weeks. I could easily
set up an "archive" folder for my users and automatically "expire" their
inbox at whatever time period I want.... If they want to keep something
forever, move it to the "archive" folder......
jay plesset
IT, dp-design.com
Sr. Support Engineer, Oracle
On 2/28/2011 1:51 PM, Matt wrote:
Looking at top 8 newest messages from my personnel email account:
Newsletter
Magazine Renwal Offer
Ebook Update Notice
Travel Deal of Week
Sales Flyer with weekly specials
Reply to forum thread
Anouther Newsletter
Custommer Service Response.
Etc.
Hmm. All of these could really expire at 30 day mark except custommer
service response in my opinion. Even if they expired at 365 days its
better then sitting there forever. I can not honestly think of any
reason to keep any of these past 30 days. If personnel messages never
expire thats fine but all this other crap can AFAIC. On personnel
messages perhaps give sender option of choosing option of 30days,
12months or never and default to never. Seems like new email clients
default to leaving mail on server rather then downloading and
deleting. Thats fine tell every email user is using 10G+ for email
server space. Server space is not free and backups take time and even
more space. Plus this all slows down POP3 etc as everytime you check
email it must return a list of messages and when there are thousands
of messages to look at that this can really load down a server.
I imagine this would be like return receipts. Yeah its there but that
does not mean all clients or servers are going to honor it.
