[Dovecot] Purging old mails
Rick Romero
rick at havokmon.com
Mon Aug 7 23:23:53 EEST 2006
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 20:42 +0100, Dave Hatton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Firstly if this is a FAQ and I've missed it - let me apologise in advance.
>
> I use dovecot as a backup mail store and would now like to purge all mails
> over a certain age.
>
> Is it as simple as using find and rm'ing the results or is there more to it?
>
> I'm using maildir if that make a difference?
Just your folder? I have a cron job for a user with a Treo that does a
broken pop and delete:
00 02 * * * /usr/bin/find \
/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/domain/username/Maildir/new -mtime +4 \
-exec rm -f {} \;
+4 is 4 days 'ago'.
Rick
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Daveh
>
>
>
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