On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 19:18:15 +0200, Pascal Volk a scris:

There is also the -A option, see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Expunge#section_options

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

What I need is to traverse *all* directories under /var/spool/mail/vhosts/domainname/ (which are /var/spool/mail/vhosts/domainname/username, with further variable subdirectories, name never known in advance...) and to delete all messages older than X days (incoming, sent, drafts, trash, etc.)

This must be done without manual confirmation ("are you sure...?") (if I do it via a script run from cron).

From the examples given in the wiki page, the expire plugin presents the same problem: one must know in advance the *name of the mailbox* he has to empty.

Also for the correct search criteria: should I use SAVEDBEFORE or SENTBEFORE ?

Thanks again, Răzvan