[Dovecot] MailDIR and expire plugin

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Oct 16 01:10:58 EEST 2009


On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 06:10 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> All of the mailboxes on this system are in MailDIR format. None of
> the users delete mail off of the server after POPing their accounts.
> This is the present setting:
> 
>   expire = Trash 7 Spam 30
>   expire_dict = proxy::expire
> 
> Is that correct for MailDIR style mailboxes?

Hmm. Maybe I misunderstood what you mean. What exactly is it that you
want? You have only POP3 users, which only have their INBOX? So they
don't really have any Trash or Spam folders? And you just want to delete
old mails from their INBOX? In that case, use something like:

expire = INBOX 30
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