On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 10:05 +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 05:09:53PM -0500, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > > In the manual page, the definition of the '-X' option seems to > > do what you want: > > > > -X expunge-days > > Expunge previously deleted messages older than expunge-days > > (when using the "delayed" expunge mode). The default is > > 0 (zero) days, which will expunge all previously deleted > > messages. > Now, what the -X option actually does is turns this into: > but the file is still on disk, just the index record has been moved > from the file cyrus.index to a new file cyrus.expunge. A week later: > Cleaned up (no file) - cyr_expire -X 7 > The cyrus.expunge record and the actual spool file itself get deleted at > this point. Until then you can un-delete the record using the > "unexpunge" command in cyrus 2.3.X.
I'm working on data-retention for my employer and I was wondering about this. The wording is a bit vague in the manual page (we are now using deleted to mean multiple things...). I have assumed that "-X 7" means purge-the-message-seven-days-AFTER-IT-WAS-"EXPUNGED". Is this correct? I believe the manual page could also be read to mean purge-the-message-AFTER-IT-WAS-"EXPUNGED"-AND-IS-OLDER-THAN-SEVEN-DAYS. "OLDER-THAN-SEVEN-DAYS" meaning it was received more than seven days ago [equivalent to "ipurge -d 7 -X"]. > I think what the original requestor was actually looking for is a tool > that can run the "EXPUNGE" phase on a regular basis. As far as I'm > aware there's nothing that ships with Cyrus that can do it. If I was > writing something for the job I would make an admin IMAP connection to > Cyrus and just cycle through the folders calling 'EXPUNGE' on them. > Cheap and nasty, but it would do the trick. You can do this in any > language with a TCP library, though something with an IMAP interface > library would be nicer. I'd use Perl and Mail::IMAPTalk, but that's > just because that's what I already use! I'd do it in python. :) I've done some similar things for walking the entire mailstore and building statistics, etc... but it is REALLY slow! A server side API for making tools like cyr_expire would be really nice. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html