I've got a nightly cron job that runs a bash script to delete old messages from specific folders doveadm expunge -A mailbox complete savedbefore 7d doveadm expunge -A mailbox failed savedbefore 7d doveadm expunge -A mailbox % savedbefore 60d
this deletes anything, in any mailbox, older than 60 days and this deletes anything from /complete or /failed that is more than 7 days old.
I don't have people useing these mailboxes, they are all attached to automation agents that don't do a good job of cleaning up after themselves.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:
On 8.8.2013, at 13.00, Răzvan Sandu <razvan.sandu@mobexpert.ro> wrote:
Pe 7 Aug 2013 11:35, Timo Sirainen a scris:
Thank you, but doveadm expunge will ask for the mailbox name:
[root@mail1 ~]# doveadm expunge -u john.doe@example.com ON 2013-08-07 doveadm(root): Fatal: expunge: To avoid accidents, search query must contain MAILBOX in all search branches
Add: mailbox '*'
Thank you, it works!
May I use the same wildcard syntax ('*') when configuring the expire plugin? Something like:
mail_plugins = $mail_plugins expire
plugin { expire = * }
It should work, but I'm not sure if it's actually all that helpful. Might be more work to keep updating the expire database than to simply go through all users.