thanks John for the reply what I would like to do is implement an autoarchive function at server level that, in the night while dovecot is down, moves messages older than n days from the user inbox to a subfolder of the same user (cur to cur)
tx mik ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Il lunedì 24 gennaio 2022 2:43 AM, John Stoffel <j...@stoffel.org> ha scritto: > "mikfum" == mikfum mik...@protonmail.com writes: mikfum> I would like to ask if it is an acceptable practice to manage mikfum> messages in the maildir as a file (move them from one folder mikfum> to another) while dovecot is in stop state thinking that it mikfum> will be rebuild to the next imap user login No, it's not a good idea, bad things might happen. what are you trying to accomplish? Maybe we can give a suggestion if we know what you are trying to accomplish. Don't assume that a certain method is the only way, just talk about the problem and what you wnat to achieve, not HOW you want to achieve it. Cheers, John
