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Hey all. I did due diligence and wasn't able to unearth anything pertaining to my questions, so I'm hoping someone could help me out here. We have a user on FC3 using the SWA with FireFox. He was dismayed to discover that his deleted items folder is periodically emptied (he would have preferred to have to trigger the event). Is there a way to modify this behaviour? Thanks!

Hi Joseph,

You can have this user logon with Outlook, right click on the Deleted Items folder, choose Properties and change the AutoDelete value to 0. However, since it sounds like the person uses a Linux Desktop, you can logon to your Scalix server and disable the auto-emptying of the delete items for him. First, find the user's Internal User ID by typing:

omshowu -n "User User" -G

where User Name is the users firstname and lastname. Now look for the "Internal User ID" field and note the number. Next, go into the /var/opt/scalix/sys/user.cfg subdirectory and create a file with that User ID number. So, if the number is 208, create a file called 208 and put a line in it that reads:

UAL_NO_WB_EMPTY=TRUE

and save the file. chown the file so it's owned by scalix by typing:

chown scalix.scalix xxx

where xxx is the ID number. See Page 371 of the Scalix Administration Guide for details.

Thanks,
Rachel