delete/archive old mail

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 13.10.2014 um 13:42 schrieb sottilette at rfx.it:
> 
> Hi everybody,
>         I store user's mail in the old mbox format.
> I have many scripts to manage users that works fine with mbox.
> I use the very old Expire_mail.pl script to delete mail older than NN
> days for selected users (nightly cron job). Still works fine with my
> CentOS dovecot-2.0.16.
> Now I want move the mail to a sort of archive folder instead of simply
> deleting it from the inbox for some users.
> Is there a similar script or some simple triks?
> 
> Thanks, F.

perhaps you will find some ideas here

https://sys4.de/de/blog/2013/02/07/mailarchiv-mit-dovecot-und-postfix-sortiert-nach-datum-mailadressen-und-ein-ausgehend-unterordnern/

...
#/bin/bash
YEAR=`/bin/date +%Y`
/usr/bin/doveadm expunge -d -u *@backup.server.org mailbox
user-backup\*$YEAR*\* savedbefore 10d
...


Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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