Ray, We do this, deleting spam filtered messages older than 21 days. We also delete the index's and let Dovecot re-generate them. Have had no problems with this method for 4 months.
Regards __________________________________________ Dean Manners > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:56 AM > To: dovecot@dovecot.org > Subject: [Dovecot] removing old emails > > Hello, > I need to remove mail older than for example 30 days. Email > is stored in maildir format. can I just use a cron job and > shell script or will that mess up indexs? > Thanks > Ray >