Lazy-expunge

Lazy-expunging allows accessing already expunged mails by moving them to a hidden folder or namespace. This can be useful for recovering mails when users accidentally delete mails, e.g. by testing a POP3 client that deletes all mails afterwards. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge

Lazy-expunge also allows to reduce Cassandra lookups with dictmap, by removing the lockdir setting and enabling the obox_track_copy_flags setting. So it’s recommended to be used for performance reasons as well.

 mail_plugins = $mail_plugins lazy_expunge
 plugin {
 lazy_expunge = EXPUNGED
 # If Cassandra w/obox is used:
 obox_track_copy_flags = yes
}

Generally, it is desired that messages in lazy_expunge mailbox/namespace are NOT counted towards user quota, as the messages seen by the user will not match-up with the size of the quota otherwise. To do this, create a quota rule that excludes the lazy_expunge mailbox/namespace from the quota. Example:

plugin {
quota = count:User quota
quota_rule = *:storage=1GB
quota_rule2 = EXPUNGED:ignore
}

Messages are not auto-deleted once they are moved into lazy_expunge mailbox/namespace. To do this, you need to configure autoexpunge for the mailbox.

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