[Dovecot] Setting for deleting old messages from Trash?

[Nicolas Letellier]

David Rosenstrauch a écrit :
> Hi.
> 
> Just switched to Dovecot from Courier last week and have been very 
> pleased so far.  The conversion was extremely painless, and I only hit a 
> few small configuration issues before I was able to get the server up 
> and running.  Since then, I've been quite pleased - Dovecot's been very 
> stable, and a good bit faster than courier as well.  However, there's 
> one nice feature from courier that I used to use that it doesn't seem 
> like Dovecot provides.  Wanted to see if that was indeed the case and, 
> if so, if there was any workaround.
> 
> In Courier, there was a setting whereby the server would automatically 
> delete messages in the Trash once they were of a certain age.  (The 
> default was 7 days.)  However, looking through the dovecot.conf, it 
> didn't appear that Dovecot had any comparable setting.
> 
> Anyone know how I might achieve this with Dovecot?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> DR
Hi.

You could test the plugin trash (see the wiki), for dovecot 1.1.
An other way is a cron with a find/delete.

  - Nicolas.