Re: [Dovecot] Please HELP: how to delete all messages older than X days
Pe 7 Aug 2013 11:35, Timo Sirainen a scris:
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
Add: mailbox '*'
Thank you, it works!
May I use the same wildcard syntax ('*') when configuring the expire plugin? Something like:
mail_plugins = $mail_plugins expire
plugin { expire = * }
or
plugin { expire = '*' }
?
Best regards, Răzvan
On 8.8.2013, at 13.00, Răzvan Sandu <razvan.sandu@mobexpert.ro> wrote:
Pe 7 Aug 2013 11:35, Timo Sirainen a scris:
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
Add: mailbox '*'
Thank you, it works!
May I use the same wildcard syntax ('*') when configuring the expire plugin? Something like:
mail_plugins = $mail_plugins expire
plugin { expire = * }
It should work, but I'm not sure if it's actually all that helpful. Might be more work to keep updating the expire database than to simply go through all users.
I've got a nightly cron job that runs a bash script to delete old messages from specific folders doveadm expunge -A mailbox complete savedbefore 7d doveadm expunge -A mailbox failed savedbefore 7d doveadm expunge -A mailbox % savedbefore 60d
this deletes anything, in any mailbox, older than 60 days and this deletes anything from /complete or /failed that is more than 7 days old.
I don't have people useing these mailboxes, they are all attached to automation agents that don't do a good job of cleaning up after themselves.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:
On 8.8.2013, at 13.00, Răzvan Sandu <razvan.sandu@mobexpert.ro> wrote:
Pe 7 Aug 2013 11:35, Timo Sirainen a scris:
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
Add: mailbox '*'
Thank you, it works!
May I use the same wildcard syntax ('*') when configuring the expire plugin? Something like:
mail_plugins = $mail_plugins expire
plugin { expire = * }
It should work, but I'm not sure if it's actually all that helpful. Might be more work to keep updating the expire database than to simply go through all users.
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Chris Young
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Răzvan Sandu
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Timo Sirainen