[Dovecot] Deleting deleted eMails

[Scott Silva]

Michael Weisgerber spake the following on 8/10/2007 11:47 AM:
> Yes, you are right, this will work. Thank you!
> But, as I am never satisfied, ;o) I'd prefer a solution which will not
> delete all marked messages, but keeps, let's say, the last two weeks. Just
> to be able to recover if there had been a faulty deletion decision before.
>  
> 
> -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Jim Horner [mailto:jhorner at arinbe.com] 
> Gesendet: Freitag, 10. August 2007 18:54
> An: mw at superformance.de; dovecot at dovecot.org
> Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] Deleting deleted eMails
> 
> On Friday 10 August 2007 10:12:50 Michael Weisgerber wrote:
>> Hello 2gether,
>>
>> I am using Dovecot 1.0.rc15 together with Outlook (I apologize) via IMAPS.
>> Now I discovered, that all the old eMails, I marked for deleting, are
> still
>> there, even the veeery old ones. Dovecot is marking the eMails (I am using
> 
> Have you tried purging (an action available from Outlook's menu (somewhere, 
> always changing)) them?
> 
> 
Set up a script to move all those marked messages to a "trash" folder in each
users mailstore. Then you can script another process to delete messages in
their trash folder older than X days.

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