[Dovecot] automated mailbox trimming?

Monique Y. Mudama monique at bounceswoosh.org
Tue Feb 1 05:10:47 EET 2011


On Tue, Feb  1 at  3:07, Timo Sirainen penned:
> > 
> > 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.

Thank you.  You're correct about "all that many users" - with a
whopping two users, the cronjob looks good to me =)


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