[Dovecot] Please HELP: how to delete all messages older than X days

[Timo Sirainen]

On 8.8.2013, at 13.00, Răzvan Sandu <razvan.sandu at mobexpert.ro> wrote:

> Pe 7 Aug 2013 11:35, Timo Sirainen a scris:
> 
>>> Thank you, but doveadm expunge will ask for the mailbox name:
>>> 
>>> [root at mail1 ~]# doveadm expunge -u john.doe at example.com ON
>>> 2013-08-07 doveadm(root): Fatal: expunge: To avoid accidents,
>>> search query must contain MAILBOX in all search branches
>> 
>> Add: mailbox '*'
> 
> Thank you, it works!
> 
> May I use the same wildcard syntax ('*') when configuring the expire
> plugin?  Something like:
> 
> mail_plugins = $mail_plugins expire
> 
> plugin {
>  expire = *
> }

It should work, but I'm not sure if it's actually all that helpful. Might be more work to keep updating the expire database than to simply go through all users.