[Dovecot] automated mailbox trimming?
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Tue Feb 1 03:07:16 EET 2011
On 1.2.2011, at 3.00, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> I've just switched from an mbox-based mail system to Dovecot with
> MailDir. With mbox, I used logrotate to keep some of my mailboxes
> (spam, sent, stuff like that) down to only the most recent messages.
>
> What's the best way to go about mailbox trimming with dovecot's
> implementation of maildir?
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire although it's a bit annoyingly complex with v1.x. I'm guessing you don't have all that many users, so v2.0 would make this simpler.
> I was thinking of writing a script to simply
> move or delete old files, but would I mess up dovecot's expectations
> for directory/file structure that way?
There's "v1.0 cronjob equivalent" in the wiki page too. It'll work fine, no messing up Dovecot.
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