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I just started using auto expunge so can't tell you how well it works, but it's worth a look. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 29, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Scott W. Sander <scottws...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am using a postfix + Dovecot server as a test mail server for which some > applications in our test environment use as a target to deliver email so > that our real endusers don't receive messages from our test servers. > > A few of the mailboxes in Dovecot receive hundreds of emails per day. I'd > like to automatically remove all emails in all mailboxes and mailbox > folders that were received more than 90 days prior to the received date. > As I'm a novice Dovecot administrator, I'm not exactly sure what the best > way to accomplish this is, but I've started looking at the "doveadm > expunge" command. I figure I could create a cron job that calls this > command with the -A switch and that has a search query that finds all > emails older than 90 days. > > I'm aware that I can test my query by using the "doveadm search" command. > The problem is that when I do any sort of search query with that command > (e.g. "doveadm search -A NEW"), I receive the following error messages: > > Error: User listing returned failure > doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some users > > I've searched for help with this error, but most of the guidance I'm seeing > refers to making sure that dovecot-sql is configured correctly; however, > I'm using "passwd-file" for the passdb and not a true database. > > Here is doveconf -n: > > ------- > > # 2.2.22 (fe789d2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # Pigeonhole version 0.4.13 (7b14904) > # OS: Linux 4.4.0-34-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ext4 > auth_mechanisms = plain login > hostname = mail.domain.test > info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log > log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log > mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n > namespace inbox { > inbox = yes > location = > mailbox "Deleted Items" { > special_use = \Trash > } > mailbox Drafts { > special_use = \Drafts > } > mailbox Junk { > special_use = \Junk > } > mailbox "Junk E-Mail" { > special_use = \Junk > } > mailbox Sent { > special_use = \Sent > } > mailbox "Sent Items" { > special_use = \Sent > } > mailbox "Sent Messages" { > special_use = \Sent > } > mailbox Trash { > special_use = \Trash > } > prefix = > } > passdb { > args = scheme=PLAIN username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/dovecot-users > driver = passwd-file > } > protocols = " imap lmtp pop3" > service auth { > unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { > group = postfix > mode = 0666 > user = postfix > } > } > service imap-login { > inet_listener imaps { > port = 993 > ssl = yes > } > } > service lmtp { > unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { > group = postfix > mode = 0600 > user = postfix > } > } > service pop3-login { > inet_listener pop3s { > port = 995 > ssl = yes > } > } > ssl = required > ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/appserver4_combined.pem > ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/appserver4_key.pem > userdb { > args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n > driver = static > } > > ------- > > Thank you in advance!