Sorry, Steffen. My version of dovecot is

# 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.9.4-15 x86_64 Debian jessie/sid ext4

Additionally, I have corrected the plugin parameters as you suggested. Now looks like:

plugin { expire = Trash expire2 = Trash/* expire3 = Junk expire4 = Junk/* expire_dict = proxy::expire }

However, the table is not updated anyway :S

Sorry for the mistake.

Regards,

Felix

On Monday 05 August 2013 08:20:38 Steffen Kaiser wrote:

On Sat, 3 Aug 2013, Felix Rubio Dalmau wrote:

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I'm experiencing problems to set-up the expire plugin in dovecot. This is the relevant part of my dovecot configuration

Well, one "relevant" part is missing: your Dovecot version. Therefore you should always post the dovecot -n output.

...

  plugin {
    expire = Trash 15 Junk 15

This is a setting for Dovecot v1. Are you using Dovecot v2? Then see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire.

Regards,

-- Steffen Kaiser

Ooook! Here it goes! :-)

Thank you!

Felix

# 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.9.4-15 x86_64 Debian jessie/sid ext4 auth_cache_size = 1 M auth_failure_delay = 10 secs auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = sha1 auth_worker_max_count = 2 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ dict { expire = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf.ext } listen = * log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_greeting = Imap Server ready. mail_access_groups = vmail mail_gid = vmail mail_home = /home/vmail/%d/%n/home mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n mail_plugins = quota zlib mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent {
auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { expire = Trash expire2 = Trash/* expire3 = Junk expire4 = Junk/* expire_dict = proxy::expire quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=200M quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% quota_rule3 = Junk:ignore quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = /home/vmail/%d/%n/dovecot.sieve sieve_default = /home/vmail/sieve/default.sieve sieve_dir = /home/vmail/%d/%n/sieve sieve_global_dir = /home/vmail/sieve/global/ zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } postmaster_address = some@mail.org protocols = imap sieve lmtp service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0660 } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vmail mode = 0660 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 0 } process_min_avail = 3 service_count = 1 } service imap { process_limit = 30 } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 0 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 0 } } ssl_cert =

Le 5 août 2013 à 13:28, Axel Luttgens a écrit :

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The first thing I would try is this one:

mail_plugins = quota zlib expire

Moreover, I guess you should also update your lmtp/lda sections:

protocol lmtp {
 mail_plugins = quota zlib sieve expire
}
protocol lda {
 mail_plugins = quota zlib sieve expire
}

Axel

Le 5 août 2013 à 15:10, Felix Rubio Dalmau a écrit :

[...] Now the question is: How should I configure the expires to be different for different boxes? I see that the expires plugin keeps the track of the oldest message on the boxes tracked, only. Should I configure cronjobs like this, for each mailbox to be expunged?

doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore <numdays>d

Hello Felix,

This might be worth a new thread...

Anyway, I think you are right about the need of having jobs run periodically.

Perhaps could you devise a single job, by ORing your queries as described in the man page for doveadm-search-query(7); you may find an example at http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-August/067983.html.

But I don't know which approach (multiple jobs vs single job) would be the most efficient.

HTH, Axel