[Dovecot] Move to a Specific Folder

Darvin Denmian darvin.denmian at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 20:50:45 EEST 2009


Will this solution works even if I had a lot of messages or subfolders?
Will this index update take much time?

Thanks !

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Andrew Schulman
<andrex at alumni.utexas.net> wrote:
>> Is there a way to automatically expurge or move messages from a
>> specific folder to another folder after "X" days?
>
> I use a daily cron job for this.  It runs a script that deletes messages
> more than 6 months old from the Junk folder.
>
> If you can do this directly in Dovecot, then I guess that's better, because
> it will keep the folder indexes up to date.  But I move messages around
> outside of Dovecot and it works fine.  Dovecot updates the indexes when I
> view the folder, and there's not much delay.
>
> A.
>
>


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