On 1.2.2011, at 3.00, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > I've just switched from an mbox-based mail system to Dovecot with > MailDir. With mbox, I used logrotate to keep some of my mailboxes > (spam, sent, stuff like that) down to only the most recent messages. > > What's the best way to go about mailbox trimming with dovecot's > implementation of maildir?
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire although it's a bit annoyingly complex with v1.x. I'm guessing you don't have all that many users, so v2.0 would make this simpler. > I was thinking of writing a script to simply > move or delete old files, but would I mess up dovecot's expectations > for directory/file structure that way? There's "v1.0 cronjob equivalent" in the wiki page too. It'll work fine, no messing up Dovecot.
