[Dovecot] Expire plugin with Mysql

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 15:07 +0800, Dino Ming wrote:
> Hi Timo,
> 
> I had setup the expire plugin using proxy dict method with mysql table.
> 
> Whenever I run the command : dovecot --exec-mail ext
> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool , I saw dovecot query the table :
> Query       SELECT path, timestamp  FROM dict_expire  ORDER BY timestamp
> 
> But then, nothing happened at all. No mails being expunge from the mailbox
> Trash folder. Also, What is the purpose for the table to store username,
> path & timestamp ? Because the table is empty and no data populated.

If there are no rows in the table, then that's the reason expire-tool
doesn't do anything. IMAP should insert rows into the table when you're
copying messages to Trash.

>   expire: Trash 1 Trash/* 1

I guess by Trash/* you're thinking about mailboxes thare are renamed
there by Thunderbird? That won't work currently..

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