[Dovecot] getting rid of old spam from +spam Maildir ?

[Charles Marcus]

On 2012-08-03 6:33 PM, Voytek Eymont <voytek at sbt.net.au> wrote:
> don't know, looking this morning it shows like below, the 00:05:05 is
> probably last time I did 'ls'? I was doing 'ls' or web mail refresh, to
> see what gets removed from 'spam' box, before and after each attempt to
> expunge :
>
> date.saved: 2012-08-03 00:05:05

The 'date.saved:' is the date/time that the message was moved into that 
folder.

The clock for these messages is based on the time it was moved into that 
folder, NOT the date/time the message was received in the message 
header. Maybe this is what is confusing you?

So, if you have issue the command to remove messages older than 7 days, 
that would be 7 days *since they were moved into the folder*.

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Best regards,

Charles