Re: Expunging and deleting old messages - moving from cyrus-imap

On 08/11/2024 01:19, Joseph Tam via dovecot wrote:

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 doveadm expunge -A MAILBOX * DELETED BEFORE 5d

and got back:

 Fatal: Unknown argument BOOT
 run-parts: /etc/cron.hourly/dovecot-cleanup exited with return code 75

Just a wild-ass guess, but did you escape the wildcard e.g.

 doveadm expunge -A MAILBOX \* DELETED BEFORE 5d

Joseph Tamjtam.home@gmail.com

Escaping didn't work. Quoting the asterisk did, presumably preventing shell expansion. Thanks.