[Dovecot] Setting for deleting old messages from Trash?

Nicolas Letellier nicolas at nicoelro.net
Mon Mar 31 19:21:57 EEST 2008


Nicolas Letellier a écrit :
> David Rosenstrauch a écrit :
>> Hi.
>>
>> Just switched to Dovecot from Courier last week and have been very 
>> pleased so far.  The conversion was extremely painless, and I only hit 
>> a few small configuration issues before I was able to get the server 
>> up and running.  Since then, I've been quite pleased - Dovecot's been 
>> very stable, and a good bit faster than courier as well.  However, 
>> there's one nice feature from courier that I used to use that it 
>> doesn't seem like Dovecot provides.  Wanted to see if that was indeed 
>> the case and, if so, if there was any workaround.
>>
>> In Courier, there was a setting whereby the server would automatically 
>> delete messages in the Trash once they were of a certain age.  (The 
>> default was 7 days.)  However, looking through the dovecot.conf, it 
>> didn't appear that Dovecot had any comparable setting.
>>
>> Anyone know how I might achieve this with Dovecot?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> DR
> Hi.
> 
> You could test the plugin trash (see the wiki), for dovecot 1.1.
> An other way is a cron with a find/delete.
> 
>  - Nicolas.
Hum... I mistaked.
This is the plugin 'expire' (not trash) : 
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge

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