[Dovecot] Are Mail files in /Maildir/cur & /Maildir/.Sent read-only ?

[Noel Butler]

On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 14:47 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:


> 
> No, file's ctime changes when you change flags. mtime never changes. But
> mtime can't really be trusted. An IMAP client can save a new messages
> with INTERNALDATE set to 10 years ago, and the file's mtime will be from
> 10 years ago. Or just copying a message to another mailbox preserves the
> mtime.
> 
> > If you want to delete mails of a certain age you can you use either the 
> > Dovecot Xxpunge plugin or a cronjob with a command like:
> > 
> > find /home -mtime +30 -name *,ST -exec rm {} \;
> 
> I'd use -ctime.


and I'd go a little further by replacing  -exec rm ...  with     -print
| /usr/bin/perl -nle 'unlink;'


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