[Dovecot] removing old emails

[Ray]

On Wednesday 09 May 2007 9:11 pm, Dean Manners wrote:
> Ray,
> 	We do this, deleting spam filtered messages older than 21 days. We
> also delete the index's and let Dovecot re-generate them. Have had no
> problems with this method for 4 months.
>
> Regards
> __________________________________________
> Dean Manners

Thanks,
I thought that should work, but it just seemed to easy...
Ray
 
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org
> > [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Ray
> > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:56 AM
> > To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> > Subject: [Dovecot] removing old emails
> >
> > Hello,
> > I need to remove mail older than for example 30 days. Email
> > is stored in maildir format. can I just use a cron job and
> > shell script or will that mess up indexs?
> > Thanks
> > Ray