[Dovecot] expire-plugin: configuration dict-server
Jens Meyer
jm2 at jensmeyer.de
Tue Aug 5 16:44:15 EEST 2008
Hello Eric,
thank you for your further help.
Now I understand the concept of this plugin - great!
The record was created:
username path timestamp
jens at test.jensmeyer.de/Trash 1218029872
AFAIK I have to add "Trash" instead of "INBOX.Trash" when seeing this
record, correct?
Kind regards,
Jens
Eric Toczek schrieb:
> Jens Meyer wrote:
>> Hello Eric,
>>
>> thank you very much for your prompt and helpful reply!
>>
>> The connect seem to work fine now.
>>
>> Please allow me two additional questions:
>> Is it correct that this database-table is only a "caching-table" which
>> is empty at first and will be filled later? It is not necessary to
>> adapt the SQL-statement to my user-configuration, is it?!
> Correct. The table is filled when the message is moved to one of the
> folders that is marked as an Expire folder. That folder is added to the
> table with a timestamp like so:
>
>
> $ echo "select * from mail.expire where path like 'eric%'" | mysql -u
> root -p
> Enter password:
> username path timestamp
> eric at flerd.com/Junk 1217943338
> eric at flerd.com/Trash 1217941084
>
>
>> Is it necessary to reference the foldernames with "INBOX.Trash" or
>> only "Trash"? For Sieve I have to use "INBOX.Trash".
>>
> Use INBOX.Trash if the trash folder you're looking to clear out is a
> subfolder of your Inbox.
>
>> Actually nothing happens when trying the plugin with "dovecot
>> --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool --test".
> Do you have the plugin loaded in the imap protocol section?
>
> protocol imap {
> ...
> mail_plugins = fts fts_squat quota imap_quota expire
> ...
> }
>
>
> If you do then the table should get updated when you move a message into
> the trash folder.
>
> If you've got the plugin set correctly and you're still not getting
> anything written into the table you can restart mysql with query logging
> on:
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/query-log.html
>
> Then move a message to one of the expire folders and see what query is run on the database and if it's not succeeding due to an error.
>
>
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