[Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Charles Marcus wrote:

> Marc Perkel, on 2/18/2008 11:28 AM, said the following:
>>> I'm looking for a way to empty user's trash folder. Can message 
>>> deletion or folder purging be scheduled?
>
>> It would be a nice feature in Dovecot to have it be able to remove 
>> messages older than say 3 days from Trash automatically.
>
> V 1.1 already can (see Expire plug-in), but I'm not sure if this only 
> happens at use3r log in or not...
>
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire


Said I: (in the thread "Deleting messages from MailDir")
>> Does the expunge plugin work without the user logging in, though?

Timo responded:
> Yes. That's exactly what it does. It keeps user/mailbox <-> oldest_msg 
> mapping in a Berkeley DB. In a nightly (or whatever) run it then uses 
> the database to open only those mailboxes that have messages to be 
> expunged.

Best,
Ben