noob maildir question

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Montag, dem 24.01.2022 um 10:18 +0000 schrieb mikfum:
> thanks John for the reply
> what I would like to do is implement an autoarchive function at
> server level that, in the night while dovecot is down,  moves
> messages older than n days from the user inbox to a subfolder of the
> same user (cur to cur)
> 
> tx
> mik
> 

Use something like this in cron or similar:

doveadm move -A Archive BEFORE 90d

You must make sure though that the Archive mailbox exists before.

> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> 
> Il lunedì 24 gennaio 2022 2:43 AM, John Stoffel <john at stoffel.org> ha
> scritto:
> 
> > "mikfum" == mikfum mikfum at protonmail.com writes:
> 
> mikfum> I would like to ask if it is an acceptable practice to manage
> 
> mikfum> messages in the maildir as a file (move them from one folder
> 
> mikfum> to another) while dovecot is in stop state thinking that it
> 
> mikfum> will be rebuild to the next imap user login
> 
> No, it's not a good idea, bad things might happen.
> 
> what are you trying to accomplish? Maybe we can give a suggestion if
> 
> we know what you are trying to accomplish. Don't assume that a
> 
> certain method is the only way, just talk about the problem and what
> 
> you wnat to achieve, not HOW you want to achieve it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John