doveadm expunge recursive?

[Aki Tuomi]

On 6.3.2019 10.24, Maria Arrea via dovecot wrote:
> We are happy users of Dovecot 2.3.4.1 . We run a cronjob that deletes
> from Trash messages older than 15 days, this is the command we run:
>  
> //usr/bin/doveadm expunge -u $USER mailbox Trash savedbefore 15d/
>  
> But this commands does NOT delete folders inside Trash.
> doveadm-expunge man page says nothing about recursive expunge. Maybe
> is not implemented?
>  
> We can not use doveadm mailbox delete, because has no search query
> argument.  We could elaborate a complex doveadm-search query and with
> xargs feed it do mailbox delete, but must be an easier way, how do you
> cope with old folders in Trash?


Expunge only deletes mails. Just like IMAP EXPUNGE command. You need to
use mailbox delete to delete mailboxes.

Aki

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