[Dovecot] Dovecot Expire doesn't work

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jun 12, 2009, at 7:09 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:

>> 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:

I thought I said it several times i several different ways and added a  
sentence about it to wiki too.. Expire plugin doesn't track each  
message individually. It only keeps a track of records:

<mailbox name> <next timestamp when to look into this mailbox>

When the timestamp is reached, it opens the mailbox and expunges all  
the messages that have old enough save-date.

>> 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?

I'm not sure what above you think contradicts anything I said..

> Or am I seriosuly misunderstanding what you said?

Possibly :)

> Or... you said 'the mailbox'... does this apply only to mbox files, or
> to maildirs too?


Expire plugin works the same way with both.