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Joseph Tam

8 Nov 2024 8 Nov '24

4:19 a.m.

doveadm expunge -A MAILBOX * DELETED BEFORE 5d

and got back:

Fatal: Unknown argument BOOT
run-parts: /etc/cron.hourly/dovecot-cleanup exited with return code 75

Just a wild-ass guess, but did you escape the wildcard e.g.

doveadm expunge -A MAILBOX \* DELETED BEFORE 5d

Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com>

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Nick Howitt

8 Nov 8 Nov

12:07 p.m.

New subject: Expunging and deleting old messages - moving from cyrus-imap

On 08/11/2024 01:19, Joseph Tam via dovecot wrote:

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 doveadm expunge -A MAILBOX * DELETED BEFORE 5d
and got back:
 Fatal: Unknown argument BOOT
 run-parts: /etc/cron.hourly/dovecot-cleanup exited with return code 75
Just a wild-ass guess, but did you escape the wildcard e.g.
 doveadm expunge -A MAILBOX \* DELETED BEFORE 5d
Joseph Tam<jtam.home@gmail.com>

Escaping didn't work. Quoting the asterisk did, presumably preventing shell expansion. Thanks.

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