Auto-archiving

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Fri Oct 7 15:18:09 UTC 2016


> On October 7, 2016 at 4:13 PM "@lbutlr" <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 05 Oct 2016, at 23:50, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote:
> >> On October 6, 2016 at 8:05 AM "@lbutlr" <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I’d like to know if there is a way to tell dovecot to
> >> 
> >> 1) move messages older than # days to the Archive folder
> >> 2) rebuild the indexes
> >> 3) remove any folders that are left with no mail
> >> 
> >> Preferably, I’d like this to be a action I an schedule via crontab or something to fire off for any users that want it. So, I do not want it to do this across all users and mailboxes.
> > 
> > Have you tried doveadm move? 
> 
> I don’t see anything in doveadm move that supports the age of the message. at least according to doveadm-move (and buy, that was fun o find since it is not mentioned anywhere in man doveadm unless you notice the (1) might indicate a man page!) it only supports dates, which makes simply doing this in a crontab (or something similarly straightforward) more problematic since I would have to generate a date string.
> 
> Ah, wait, I just found the DATE SPECIFICATION section of doveadm-search-query.
> 
> Nothing quite like having three man pages to get useful information on one command.
> 
> Thanks for the forcing me to look again though.
> 
> doveadm move -u jane Archive mailbox INBOX BEFORE 30d
> 
> And then I have to do that for all folders one at a time, yes?

doveadm move -u jane Archive ALL BEFORE 30d

? 

Aki


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