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

Robert Schetterer robert at schetterer.org
Tue Jul 10 14:37:59 EEST 2012


Am 10.07.2012 13:34, schrieb Robert Schetterer:
> Am 10.07.2012 13:25, schrieb Voytek Eymont:
>> I'm trying to setup per user '+spam' delivery from amavis tags, so that
>> each user gets any mails tagged as spam to 'spam' Maildir via +spam
>> Dovecot lmtp delivery.
> 
> i have no amavis, i use a global sieve rule to deliver tagged mail into
> special Junk folder, and virtual plugin to get users the chance to
> download tagged mails from Junk folder via pop3 too
> 
> look i.e here
> 
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Examples
> 
>>
>> after say 7 days I want to delete all spams older than 7 days,
>> if I simply delete mail files from the file system, is that a 'bad thing' ?
> 
> perhaps use daily cron with something like this
> 
> doveadm expunge -A mailbox Junk  savedbefore 7d;

i forgot
read

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire

for this too

> 
>>
>> what is a proper way to do that, and scripts ?
>>
>> for removing/archiving old uncollected emails in main INBOX I use
>> archivemail from sf, but, don't think I can do subfoldrs with archivemail
>>
>> any pointers (and scripts) welcomed, thanks
>>
>>
> 
>  i am not sure what you ask for here, looking for archive solution ?
> 


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MfG Robert Schetterer





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