noob maildir question

[mikfum]

thanks John for the reply
what I would like to do is implement an autoarchive function at server level that, in the night while dovecot is down,  moves messages older than n days from the user inbox to a subfolder of the same user (cur to cur)

tx
mik

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Il lunedì 24 gennaio 2022 2:43 AM, John Stoffel <john at stoffel.org> ha scritto:

> "mikfum" == mikfum mikfum at protonmail.com writes:

mikfum> I would like to ask if it is an acceptable practice to manage

mikfum> messages in the maildir as a file (move them from one folder

mikfum> to another) while dovecot is in stop state thinking that it

mikfum> will be rebuild to the next imap user login

No, it's not a good idea, bad things might happen.

what are you trying to accomplish? Maybe we can give a suggestion if

we know what you are trying to accomplish. Don't assume that a

certain method is the only way, just talk about the problem and what

you wnat to achieve, not HOW you want to achieve it.

Cheers,

John