Hi,
I think you can achieve file range approach using a small piece of shell script.
First, extract user list using doveadm users '*'. Then process this list to fit your needs (seven parts for a week and a part processed by week day for example). Finally, use -u option of doveadm purge into a loop.
That is just a trivial first idea. You can notice that it will trigger a doveadm process per user, that seems to be less than optimum approach.
According do the documentation (https://wiki.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Purge), doveadm purge allow using a user *mask* as -u option. This feature can be usefull if you have a strict nameplan of your mailboxes : you can then calculate parts with a touchy mask.
Regards.
Fabien
Le 23/08/2020 à 20:10, Jesus Cea a écrit :
I am using mdbox storage format.
As far as I know, “doveadm purge” does a complete purge. The time and disk activity would be proportional to the number mdbox files on the storage. The purge time could be huge.
I wonder if there is some way of doing a kind of incremental purge, stopping/restarting purging, etc. Purging by file range would be nice too.
Advice?
Thanks
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