[Dovecot] Differences when expire plugin and cronjob?

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Noel Butler wrote:

> We found it much easier to use a daily cron to clear out old crap
>
> find /var/vmail/*/*/*/*/Maildir/{.Junk,.Trash}/ -name "*.mx*" -mtime +10
> -print | /usr/bin/perl -nle 'unlink;'

Which won't work necessarily because of "command line exceeded" errors :)

If you have a GNU find, you could use "-delete" with find, or -print0 in 
combination with "xargs -r0 rm". This _should_ have even better 
performance.

Nevertheless, I'm quite happy with find myself.

Bye.

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Steffen Kaiser
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