:2011-01-31T20:10:Monique Y. Mudama: > On Tue, Feb 1 at 3:07, Timo Sirainen penned: > > > > > > 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. > > Thank you. You're correct about "all that many users" - with a > whopping two users, the cronjob looks good to me =)
I have my own approach and just thought I give it here in case anyone is interested. http://codemages.net/archive_mail-1.0.tar.bz2 Contains: archive_mail.sh - the core script moveme - support script for final movement - used to do some hash checking etc... but now it's a cp && rm archmail.sh - the script I use to run archive_mail.sh What the script does is: You have INBOX it will each time is run check for any messages based on fs mtime that is older than N days and will store those messages into: .archive.year.month I run this daily and it helps keep all the mails down to a managable level. Hopefully it helps someone. -- Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik Source Mage GNU/Linux Games/Xorg grimoire guru Re-Alpine Coordinator http://sourceforge.net/projects/re-alpine/ Geek/Hacker/Tinker Be sure brain is in gear before engaging mouth.