[Dovecot] expire-tool

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Apr 23 01:36:02 EEST 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 16:03 -0600, Jeff Rice wrote:
> A couple questions:
> First, the mailboxes to expire are stored as user at domain/.INBOX.Trash. 
> How should I list them in the conf file?

You configured them correctly.

> Also, is there any way to have 
> the system come up to date since older emails already exist in those 
> boxes and should be deleted.  Will it detect those, or only start to 
> delete old emails that were delivered after the plugin was enabled?

It'll only start updating when new mails are deleted.

> Second, should the table be empty if mail has been delivered & deleted 
> since I enabled the plugin?  I assumed it would start to fill.

If mails had been saved/copied to those trash mailboxes since enabling
the plugin, it should have added rows to the database. If it didn't..
well, does mail_debug=yes make it log anything about it?

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