[Dovecot] Expire with space in mailbox name

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Sep 17 22:26:56 EEST 2008


On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:44 PM, Jeff Savage wrote:

> I'm running Dovecot 1.1.3 and trying to make use of the expire  
> plugin on my
> mbox-based mailboxes. Expire seems to be populating the database  
> when it
> comes to the trash folder, but I'm having issues with a spam folder
> (unfortunately) named "Junk E-mail". I've tried quotes and a  
> backslash to
> account for the space, but it's not happening. Can anyone tell me  
> how I
> would account for a folder like this? Neither of the following work,  
> and I
> haven't found an example that addresses this.

Not possible currently.

> expire = Trash 7 "Junk E-mail" 7

I guess this should be supported some day. Or even better would be if  
the entire configuration could be done like:

expire {
   mailbox = Junk E-mail
   limit = 7d
}

But that'll have to wait until v2.0.

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