Hi, I'm having some trouble getting the expire plugin to work, and I'm not sure where to turn for troubleshooting.

This is on 1.2rc3.

To my dovecot.conf, I've added:

mail_plugins = expire

under the protocol imap and lda sections.

I also added:

dict { expire = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf }

plugin { expire = Trash 30 Trash/* 30 Spam 30 expire_dict = proxy::expire auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master }

/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf contains:

connect = host=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock dbname=email user=XXX password=XXX

map { pattern = shared/expire/$user/$mailbox table = expires value_field = expire_stamp

fields { username = $user mailbox = $mailbox } }

I created the table and granted all permissions to the user. The socket is the same one used by the auth_socket process, so that should work.

Dovecot restarts fine, but the table is empty.

A couple questions: First, the mailboxes to expire are stored as user@domain/.INBOX.Trash. How should I list them in the conf file? Also, is there any way to have the system come up to date since older emails already exist in those boxes and should be deleted. Will it detect those, or only start to delete old emails that were delivered after the plugin was enabled?

Second, should the table be empty if mail has been delivered & deleted since I enabled the plugin? I assumed it would start to fill.

Jeff