[Dovecot] Question about Maildir automatic cleanup.

Jose Celestino japc at co.sapo.pt
Wed May 7 15:23:19 EEST 2008


Words by José Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa [Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:47:30PM -0700]:
> Hi!
> 
> I want to automatically delete old messages from one user's Maildir, and I was thinking on running something like this:
> 
> find /home/user/Maildir/cur/ /home/user/Maildir/new/ -daystart -mtime +15 -delete
> 
> but I'm not sure if by deleting messages "manually" I will break the dovecot.index* files.
> 
> What do you think?
> 

The index files will "auto-fix".

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