[Dovecot] expires

[ben at electricembers.net]

When the expire cronjob actually finds a folder needs pruning, does it 
then purge the row from the database? Or could it update the row with the 
"new" oldest message's expiration time?

I guess I can test this for myself. I did just learn that emptying the 
Trash removes the row from the expires db. . .


I had misconfigured expires here, and think I fixed it, but in checking 
things over, I do find some "over age" files, and their users don't appear 
in the expires db. So I'm assuming it's because expiration worked on that 
folder some time ago, and no "new" messages have been delivered there 
since then to reset the expires db?

(Sometimes I wish there wasn't the db, and we could just have a nightly 
cronjob do all the work on all users' Trash, Spam, Virus folders  -- 
where we pretty much expect to be constantly pruning, or shaving as it 
were ;)

  Benjamin