Re: [Dovecot] Retention Policy Feature(?)

On Thursday 2005-November-17 14:36, Ted Strzalkowski wrote:

I am currently using dovecot 0.99.14p1 on OpenBSD 3.8, mbox format, procmail+sendmail MTA. I subscribe to quite a few mailing lists and currently have procmail sorting mail into the proper mboxes. I was hoping there would be some sort of retention policy feature built in to dovecot. I want to delete mail more than X days old from X

With maildir, find(1), and a daily cron(1) job to delete files older than you wish to keep, this would be trivial to implement.

With mbox, I don't know. But I wouldn't want it as a dovecot feature, because it should be something under the user's control. Some are packrats who keep everything, and up to their disk quota that is fine!

Moving to maildir with procmail was easier than expected, contrary to what I had read on the Web. Precede folder names with a dot and end them with a slash ... IWFM.

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