[Dovecot] Dovecot Expire doesn't work

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 15:27 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 6-11-2009 3:22 AM Charles Marcus spake the following:
> > On 6/10/2009, Stef Simoens (stef.simoens at scarlet.be) wrote:
> >> it doesn't do anything (especially not deleting e-mails).
> >> Obviously, in stef/Trash and stef/Spam, there are e-mails waiting to be deleted.
> > 
> > It doesn't go by the email date, it goes by the date/time the email was
> > moved into that folder.
> > 
> > In other words, it won't effect emails that were *already* *in* the folder.
> > 
> > Personally, I'd love to see the tool have an option to go by the email
> > date/time instead of when it was moved into the folder...
> > 
> So in that case could you move them out and back again? I am considering using
> the plugin, but I'm still in the info gathering phase.

You only need to move one mail into the mailbox so that the mailbox gets
added to the database. Once that mail gets expunged, all the other old
existing mails get expunged along with it.

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