14 Feb
2008
14 Feb
'08
5:56 p.m.
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 00:25 -0500, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
And, as Charles pointed out, in Dovecot 1.1 there's a plugin to do this. Does the expunge plugin work without the user logging in, though?
Yes. That's exactly what it does. It keeps user/mailbox <-> oldest_msg mapping in a Berkeley DB. In a nightly (or whatever) run it then uses the database to open only those mailboxes that have messages to be expunged.