[Dovecot] automated mailbox trimming?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 1.2.2011, at 3.00, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:

> I've just switched from an mbox-based mail system to Dovecot with
> MailDir.  With mbox, I used logrotate to keep some of my mailboxes
> (spam, sent, stuff like that) down to only the most recent messages.
> 
> What's the best way to go about mailbox trimming with dovecot's
> implementation of maildir?

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire although it's a bit annoyingly complex with v1.x. I'm guessing you don't have all that many users, so v2.0 would make this simpler.

>  I was thinking of writing a script to simply
> move or delete old files, but would I mess up dovecot's expectations
> for directory/file structure that way?

There's "v1.0 cronjob equivalent" in the wiki page too. It'll work fine, no messing up Dovecot.