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Hi everybody, I store user's mail in the old mbox format. I have many scripts to manage users that works fine with mbox. I use the very old Expire_mail.pl script to delete mail older than NN days for selected users (nightly cron job). Still works fine with my CentOS dovecot-2.0.16. Now I want move the mail to a sort of archive folder instead of simply deleting it from the inbox for some users. Is there a similar script or some simple triks?

Thanks, F.

perhaps you will find some ideas here

https://sys4.de/de/blog/2013/02/07/mailarchiv-mit-dovecot-und-postfix-sortie...

... #/bin/bash YEAR=/bin/date +%Y /usr/bin/doveadm expunge -d -u *@backup.server.org mailbox user-backup\*$YEAR*\* savedbefore 10d ...

Thanks for replay. My German is really poor, but from a quick look of the example above and man doveadm[-expunge], seems that it can be used to replace the old Expire_mail.pl (I need to study the right syntax ...)

But still there is the move/archive old mail activity not solved.

i use the bc feature of postfix to move a copy of all mail per maildomain into a backup maildomain archive folder, as this is done via lmtp i am able to sort mails via sieve per user and date folder, depending on how you like to setup you may use imap acl to give seen rights to the orig user, so the may restore their own mail whenever they want and/or their domain postmaster can do it for them.

But thats only one chance you can do it, you have to decide what fits best to your needs.

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doveadm-altmove seems interesting, but in the man page it is reported only work with dbox (dbox-only), and my inboxes are in mbox format.

Any other advice?

Sorry for the replay to sender instead of the list.

As I originally wrote, my need is script or a command like the old Expire_mail.pl that parse a local mbox folder and move/copy mail older than NN days to another local mbox folder. Probably for a Perl programmer is only matter of modify this script or something similar. I searched in docs, wiki, ... but not noticied something that can simply be inserted in a cron job to do the work.

Only migration tools or complex (for me), library that can be used to manipulate folders :-)

Thanks, F.