[Dovecot] Vpopmail + Expire Plugin

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 13:29 +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> > doveadm mailbox list -u lehmann at ans-netz.de
> 
> This just gave me "dovecot.sieve", so "/Maildir" was missing from the  
> directory.
> I added it by specifying mail_location:
> mail_location = maildir:/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir
> I've read that specifying this is not needed with vpopmail as vpopmail is used
> to get the mail location but obviously it is not working 100% correctly.
> With defining mail_location doveadm search works.

Hmm. It should have worked exactly the same for imap and doveadm.

> I could now probably set up a cron job doing the "expunging" but - what is
> expire now for at all? What is the benefit? I thought that expunging is only
> possible with expire but from what I understood now it also works without
> expire.

In v1.x it was necessary, but in v2.0 it's only an optimization for
skipping users who don't have anything to expunge (which is useful when
you have millions of users).

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