[Bug 1924618] Re: add a "delete after" option

2021-04-16 Thread Bill Yikes
For the record, I should mention that I just noticed this is covered in the FaQ: https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G5 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1924618 Title: add a

[Bug 1924618] Re: add a "delete after" option

2021-04-16 Thread Bill Yikes
I appreciate everyone's quick response. First I will address the privacy matter. In the infosec discipline, we have the "principle of least priviledge", which essentially means it's a bad idea to grant more access than what's needed for the task. If someone only needs 90 days of server storage p

[Bug 1924618] Re: add a "delete after" option

2021-04-16 Thread Matthias Andree
Bill, thanks for the proposal. I'll answer as upstream maintainer. The former fetchmail maintainer, Eric S. Raymond, years go, decided against this feature ("do one job well"), but I am open to it. Technically however I need to change the .fetchids format, so this is release 7.0 business, meaning

[Bug 1924618] Re: add a "delete after" option

2021-04-16 Thread Utkarsh Gupta
Since this isn't a bug or something Ubuntu-specific but a feature request from the upstream, I am marking this as "Invalid", but should you feel differently, please let us know and we can work something out. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is s

[Bug 1924618] Re: add a "delete after" option

2021-04-16 Thread Utkarsh Gupta
Hi Bill, Thanks for taking out time to report the bug and help make Ubuntu server better. We appreciate the suggestions of new features but I am afraid that we work on the packaging of upstream source[1] for Ubuntu. Such new feature requests and suggestions are worth reporting upstream and once