[Dovecot] Question about Maildir automatic cleanup.

[mouss]

Jose Celestino wrote:
> Words by José Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa [Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:47:30PM -0700]:
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>> I want to automatically delete old messages from one user's Maildir, and I was thinking on running something like this:
>>
>> find /home/user/Maildir/cur/ /home/user/Maildir/new/ -daystart -mtime +15 -delete
>>
>> but I'm not sure if by deleting messages "manually" I will break the dovecot.index* files.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>>     
>
> The index files will "auto-fix".
>
>   

that said, deleting messages from the new/ directory is a bit risky...

also, for safety, better move the messages to another place (in the same 
partition, to avoid a copy) and have another job delete them from that 
place (maybe few days later).