noob maildir question

[mikfum]

very nice!, you also made me find the wiki to look for answers to any other trivial questions without boring you...
tx again
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Il lunedì 24 gennaio 2022 12:15 PM, Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> ha scritto:

> Am Montag, dem 24.01.2022 um 10:18 +0000 schrieb 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
>
> Use something like this in cron or similar:
>
> doveadm move -A Archive BEFORE 90d
>
> You must make sure though that the Archive mailbox exists before.
>
> > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
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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