Automatic purging of old email in all mailboxes

[Aki Tuomi]

You can provide those defaults with 

mail_uid=vmail
mail_gid=vmail
mail_home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%u
mail_location=Maildir:~/maildir

global settings.

And then you can remove userdb block completely.

Aki

> On August 30, 2016 at 7:02 PM "Scott W. Sander" <scottwsx96 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Forgive me, I'm a novice.  Consider that today I have already set up a
> working postfix + Dovecot server with userdb using the static driver and
> passdb using a password file (in the format <username>:{hashing
> algorithm}<password hash>).  The Dovecot server has several mailboxes which
> are already in use today.
> 
> I understand that I'll need to change over to using the passwd-file driver
> in order to get doveadm mailbox iteration working.  That said, can someone
> please explain how I could migrate over from the static to passwd-file
> without causing disruption to the existing mailboxes?  Do I need to just
> add some more information to my Dovecot password file (namely the uid, gid,
> and mailbox home location)?  If so, can I still use the "vmail" uid and gid
> for all mailbox users that I was using with the static driver configuration?
> 
> Sorry, when I followed the setup guide I did, I did not realize it would
> prevent me from being able to use doveadm expunge -A and doveadm search -A.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:07 AM Stefán Tamás <tamas at numex.hu> wrote:
> 
> > 2016. 08. 29, hétfő keltezéssel 19.40-kor Scott W. Sander ezt írta:
> >
> > > userdb {
> > >   args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n
> > >   driver = static
> > > }
> >
> > Use passwd-file driver to get iteration working. The static driver is
> > can not be used for iteration.
> >
> >
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