[Dovecot] maildir maintenance?

[Noel Butler]

On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 20:55 -0600, Brian Kroth wrote:


> 
> I recently wrote the attached script (could probably be improved) meant
> in theory to be run as a nightly cron job to do the follow:
> 1) Remove old messages marked as deleted.
> (I didn't really like the expunge/trash plugins the last time I looked
> at them.)
> 2) Rebuild the indexes to account of those changes.
> (So that the users aren't delayed by dovecot rebuilding them.)
> 3) Rebuild FTS indexes.
> (Again to avoid delay.)
> 4) Rebuild the maildirsize file.
> (It seems to become slightly inaccurate over time.)
> 
> To the devs, I'm wondering if this seems sane?
> 
> To other users of dovecot, I'm wondering what, if any sort of
> maintenance operations you tend to do in your setups?


Cleanup spam and trash folders is really all needs doing... I wrote this
years ago and its never let us down, it could be written entirely in
perl without system calls, but that requires a lot more code, I like
keeping it simple, as it leaves little to go wrong,  and I believe that
if it aint borked, don't bork it, kinda thing :) 


system("/usr/bin/find /var/vmail/*/*/*/*/*/Maildir/.Trash/ -name \"*,ST
\" -mtime +7 -print | /usr/bin/perl -nle 'unlink;'");
system("/usr/bin/find /var/vmail/*/*/*/*/*/Maildir/.Junk/ -name \"*,S\"
-mtime +30 -print | /usr/bin/perl -nle 'unlink;'");

@olddirs = `/usr/bin/find /var/vmail/*/*/*/*/*/Maildir/.Trash.* -type d
-mtime +7`;
if ((!@olddirs) or (@olddirs =~ "No such" )) {
        print "nothing to do\n";
} else {
        use File::Path qw(remove_tree);
        foreach $odirdel (@olddirs){
                chomp $odirdel;
                print "Found: $odirdel \n";
                remove_tree($odirdel);
        }
}


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