[Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

[Charles Marcus]

On 2/18/2008, Bruce Bodger (bbodger at bodcon.com) wrote:
> Excuse me but somebody, maybe me?, is confusing the expire plugin 
> with the lazy_expunge plugin.  From reading the fine documentation, 
> it appears that...
> 
> 1. There is no expunge plugin, only a lazy_expunge plugin

Well..... that is correct, that earlier reference to an 'expunge' plugin 
was apparently just a typo...

> 2. The lazy_expunge plugin runs "by itself" but requires a nightly 
> cron job if you want to delete old mail.
> 3. There is an expire plugin which I believe the original poster was 
> asking about
> 4. The expire plugin requires a nightly cron job to call 
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool to do its thing 

The cron job is only for v 1.0.x systems. The expire plugin only works 
on 1.1+

As far as I can tell, the expire plugin does not require a cron job to 
do its thing...

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Best regards,

Charles