[Dovecot] Dovecot Expire doesn't work

Stef Simoens stef.simoens at scarlet.be
Fri Jun 12 01:48:47 EEST 2009


Hello,

I know how the expire plugin (should) work.
I am actually happy that the expire-plugin works as is is defined.

However, the plugin does not work.

- the folder /var/mail/root is created (empty) for no reason (root mails 
should be forwarded to me, stef)
- the mails in /var/mail/stef/Spam and/or /var/mail/stef/Trash are not 
expunged after the determined time

As written in my original mail, I did a `strace`. In the strace, I see 
that expire-tool 'reads' /var/mail/root and 'reports' that 
/var/mail/stef has no e-mails.

So, I see two options:
- I made a configuration error (but I don't see it, and I did some 
serious looking via google and on the wiki, but maybe it's so obvious I 
didn't pay attention)
- there is a bug in expire-tool

I wrote this e-mail because I suspect the latter [but please inform me 
if it's the first]

Thanks for your consideration

Stef

Scott Silva schreef:
> on 6-11-2009 3:22 AM Charles Marcus spake the following:
>   
>> On 6/10/2009, Stef Simoens (stef.simoens at scarlet.be) wrote:
>>     
>>> it doesn't do anything (especially not deleting e-mails).
>>> Obviously, in stef/Trash and stef/Spam, there are e-mails waiting to be deleted.
>>>       
>> It doesn't go by the email date, it goes by the date/time the email was
>> moved into that folder.
>>
>> In other words, it won't effect emails that were *already* *in* the folder.
>>
>> Personally, I'd love to see the tool have an option to go by the email
>> date/time instead of when it was moved into the folder...
>>
>>     
> So in that case could you move them out and back again? I am considering using
> the plugin, but I'm still in the info gathering phase.
>   


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