[Dovecot] MailDIR and expire plugin

[Jerry]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:10:58 -0400
Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> 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

Now that makes more sense. I thought it might be something like that;
however, I could not find any definitive documentation on it.

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