[Dovecot] Dovecot Expire doesn't work

[Charles Marcus]

On 6/11/2009 6:37 PM, Timo Sirainen 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.

!? This isn't what you said when this was discussed earlier earlier:

> On 2/4/2009 12:17 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 11:27 +0100, Nicolas Letellier wrote:
>>> Info: user3 at domain.tld/Trash: stop, expire time in future: Wed
>>> Feb 4 21:00:50 2009
>>> 
>>> Why this message? I have 3 mailboxes, and the message appears
>>> only with this mailbox.
>>> The 2 others mailbox have mails into Trash and Junk folders. And
>>> the mail are older than 2 days. An ls -lcs say it.

>> Dovecot tracks the timestamp when the message was copied to Trash,
>> not necessary its ctime. So you probably copied the message to
>> Trash on Feb 3 21:00:50, which is why it'll get expunged at Feb 4
>> 21:00:50.

>>> In a mailbox1, I have this into Junk/cur directory:
>>>  4 -rw-------  1 dovecot  dovecot  3822 Feb  2 13:39 1233569469.M275631P48216.***.***.net,S=3822,W=3945:2,S
>>>  4 -rw-------  1 dovecot  dovecot  3004 Feb  2 15:43 1233585799.M730005P46882.***.***.net,W=3078,S=3004:2,S
>>>  4 -rw-------  1 dovecot  dovecot  3056 Feb  2 17:49 1233587786.M676156P51401.***.***.net,S=3056,W=3132:2,S
>>>  4 -rw-------  1 dovecot  dovecot  3732 Feb  2 17:49 1233592892.M701994P52459.***.***.net,S=3732,W=3823:2,S
>>>
>>> We are Feb 4, and these message are always here. No informations
>>> with mail_debug, or with --test parameter.These messages were arrived
>>> Feb 2, and they might have this date in dovecot.index.cache...

>> Was expire plugin enabled then? If it wasn't, it didn't add them to its
>> database so it doesn't know about them.

... has this changed? Or am I seriosuly misunderstanding what you said?
Or... you said 'the mailbox'... does this apply only to mbox files, or
to maildirs too?

Thanks for the clarification Timo...

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Best regards,

Charles