Disabling PURGE/DELETE

Michael Loftis mloftis at wgops.com
Sat Dec 4 18:46:38 EST 2004


Remove the 'd' ACL, and probably the 'a' ACL as well from the users 
mailboxes.

However this isnt' the solution your'e looking for.  You want to do backups.

--On Saturday, December 04, 2004 19:37 +0200 ocl <ocl at arayan.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have had an employee delete all his mails and then leave
> the company. Now, the management is asking me to make it
> impossible for mail users to delete any mails.
>
> We do have an 'archive' mailbox which --in a way-- serves
> this purpose but, it is not the same thing: It does not
> have the same folder structure the user has, it is a lot
> of work to recreate a mailbox that contains that particular
> user's mailbox.
>
> Getting the stuff back from a backup does not necessarily
> mean an easier task, because I have no idea when an important
> mail has been deleted.
>
> In short, despite all its potential drawbacks, I would very
> much like everyone *not* to be able to delete (purge) any mail
> at all.
>
> Can it be done? If so, how?
>
> Cheers,
> Ray
>
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