On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 15:09 +0200, LEVAI Daniel wrote: [...]

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doveadm(root): Debug: expire: Searching only users listed in expire database [...] logging that. I fixed in hg so that it now instead logs: expire: Iterating only a single user, ignoring expire database Great!

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If I don't specify a user with '-u', then nothing gets expunged, so it doesn't get the list of users from the expire database. If you don't use -u or -A then it tries to access the current system user's mails. Aha!

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doveadm(<user>): Error: net_connect_unix(/var/dovecot//dict) failed: Permission denied I improved this error message now in hg to show what user doesn't have access. Great!

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ls -la /var/dovecot/dict

srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Sep 21 09:47:00 2010 /var/dovecot/dict= .. What is trying to use that socket when I'm expunging mails? Am I supposed to grant my internal_user some privileges to that socket? While I got that error message, the expunge has succeeded. doveadm tries to access the expire database via the dict socket. You didn't really give enough information about what user you're running doveadm as or if you're using system or virtual users or.. Sorry. I'm running that doveadm command as root, with the -u <user> parameter, where <user> is a virtual user. Anyway, I've just read the wiki2 again, and noted that I don't really need the expire plugin, because it is only needed for the -A option. If I specify the -u parameter, it doesn't utilize the plugin. So I'm now using only the doveadm expunge -u ... command, which now gives me this output:

/usr/local/bin/doveadm -D expunge -u <user> mailbox sa.* SAVEDBEFORE 1d

doveadm(root): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/doveadm doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_expire_plugin, because dlopen() failed: Cannot load specified object ^^^ I'm curious about this error message. Is it safe to ignore this? doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so doveadm(<user>): Debug: expunge: box=sa.spam uid=6435 doveadm(<user>): Debug: expunge: box=sa.spam uid=6436 doveadm(<user>): Debug: expunge: box=sa.spam uid=6437 doveadm(<user>): Debug: expunge: box=sa.spam uid=6438

The only thing I've changed in the config is that I've removed the expire plugin from the $mail_plugins variable.

Thanks, Daniel

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