Re: [linux@bucksch.org: Bug#101186: purge removes new mail in spool dir]

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Joost Kooij wrote:
> Please look at squid.  IMHO it does the right thing, for reasonable values
> of "right".  Squid simply does not remove your cache files on purge.
> Instead it notifies the user that the purge operation did not remove
> the spool dir and how these remaining files can be removed manually.

I think that the way various databases do it is better (I forget if this
is mysql or postgresql or both). On purge, if there are databases, ask
if they can be deleted (probably default to false).

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