I will create a schedule to expurge older emails than a date, like 3, 6 months.
Maybe i will create a application that makes a pipe to doveadm and call it to do the job. 2010/11/18 Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:08 -0200, Alex Baule wrote: > > > How doveadm purge a email ? > > By "purge" do you actually mean the "doveadm purge" command that works > only for multi-dbox? Or I'm guessing more likely you mean "doveadm > expunge"? > > > It's search using the index or scan every directory and open the email to > > match the search criteria ? > > This doesn't have much to do with expunging, or even doveadm really. > It's done the same way for all doveadm's mail commands (search, fetch, > expunge, altmove, etc.) The actual search code is also the same as used > by IMAP SEARCH. > > So, yeah, it'll use indexes as best as it can, but if you try to search > based on something that's not in index/cache file (like message body), > it'll have to open the mails. > > >