Thomas M Goerger tmg@umn.edu writes:

Anyone out there using expire? At this point, I'm not sure that it's even running. It was touching the plugin libraries yesterday, but doesn't appear to be doing so today. The plugin directory wasn't explictly set, so I've done so now, but it's still not touching these. Anyone have a cf file I could take a look at, or any ideas as to what might be happening?

I haven't followed the thread very attentively, but I am using it (together w/ 1.2.11). At least on Linux (and possibly on Solaris) you can use the pmap-command to determine if the plugin is actually loaded (should be loaded by the 'mail processor' processes, 'pop3' or 'imap'). For a pop3-process I just looked at, this looks like this:

19612: pop3 Address Kbytes Mode Offset Device Mapping 08048000 672 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00006 pop3 080f0000 8 rw--- 00000000000a7000 008:00006 pop3 080f2000 472 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000 [ anon ] b7f37000 32 r--s- 0000000000000000 008:00008 dovecot.index.cache b7f3f000 32 r--s- 0000000000000000 008:00008 dovecot.index.log b7f47000 4 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000 [ anon ] b7f48000 60 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00006 libpthread-2.3.6.so b7f57000 4 rw--- 000000000000e000 008:00006 libpthread-2.3.6.so b7f58000 8 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000 [ anon ] b7f5a000 1172 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00006 libc-2.3.6.so b807f000 28 rw--- 0000000000125000 008:00006 libc-2.3.6.so b8086000 16 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000 [ anon ] b808a000 28 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00006 librt-2.3.6.so b8091000 4 rw--- 0000000000006000 008:00006 librt-2.3.6.so b8092000 8 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00006 libdl-2.3.6.so b8094000 4 rw--- 0000000000001000 008:00006 libdl-2.3.6.so b8097000 12 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00006 lib20_expire_plugin.so b809a000 4 rw--- 0000000000002000 008:00006 lib20_expire_plugin.so b809b000 12 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000 [ anon ] b809e000 84 r-x-- 0000000000000000 008:00006 ld-2.3.6.so b80b3000 4 rw--- 0000000000014000 008:00006 ld-2.3.6.so bfbf1000 84 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000 [ stack ] ffffe000 4 r-x-- 0000000000000000 000:00000 [ anon ] mapped: 2756K writeable/private: 652K shared: 64K

I am using a PostgreSQL table created according to the instructions in the Wiki and my configuration is (excerpt):

------------- dovecot.conf --------------- protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv pop3_save_uidl = yes mail_max_userip_connections = 3 mail_plugins = expire }

[...]

dict { expire = multi-pgsql:/etc/dovecot-pmg-cfg/dovecot-expire.conf }

plugin { expire = * 7 expire_dict = proxy::expire }

--------------- dovecot-expire.conf ------ connect = dbname=a user=b password=c

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

    fields {
            username = $user
            mailbox = $mailbox
    }

}

which is just an adjusted copy of the example configuration (multi-pgsql is a custom PostgreSQL driver used by this application).