Re: [Dovecot] Purging old mails

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 20:42 +0100, Dave Hatton wrote:

Hi all,

Firstly if this is a FAQ and I've missed it - let me apologise in advance.

I use dovecot as a backup mail store and would now like to purge all mails over a certain age.

Is it as simple as using find and rm'ing the results or is there more to it?

I'm using maildir if that make a difference?

Just your folder? I have a cron job for a user with a Treo that does a broken pop and delete:

00 02 * * * /usr/bin/find
/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/domain/username/Maildir/new -mtime +4
-exec rm -f {} \;

+4 is 4 days 'ago'.

Rick

Thanks in advance.

Daveh