On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 14:47 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
No, file's ctime changes when you change flags. mtime never changes. But mtime can't really be trusted. An IMAP client can save a new messages with INTERNALDATE set to 10 years ago, and the file's mtime will be from 10 years ago. Or just copying a message to another mailbox preserves the mtime.
If you want to delete mails of a certain age you can you use either the Dovecot Xxpunge plugin or a cronjob with a command like:
find /home -mtime +30 -name *,ST -exec rm {} \;
I'd use -ctime.
and I'd go a little further by replacing -exec rm ... with -print | /usr/bin/perl -nle 'unlink;'
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