Re: [Dovecot] Move to a Specific Folder
Thanks, for all replies.
I'll use find :)
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Andrew Schulman
wrote:
>> > Is there a way to automatically expurge or move messages from a
>> > specific folder to another folder after "X" days?
>>
>> I use a daily cron job for this. It runs a script that deletes messages
>> more than 6 months old from the Junk folder.
>
> Looking at my nightly spam control job, I see that it essentially runs
>
> find ~/.mail/.Junk/{new,cur} -type f -mtime +180 -delete
>
> which deletes all files in the Junk folder that are more than 180 days old.
> If instead of deleting those files you wanted to move them into another
> directory, say $targetdir, then you could replace -delete in the above by
> e.g.
>
> -exec mv --target-directory=$targetdir '{}' +
>
> See find(1) for details.
> A.
>
>
Re: [Dovecot] Move to a Specific Folder
> > Is there a way to automatically expurge or move messages from a
> > specific folder to another folder after "X" days?
>
> I use a daily cron job for this. It runs a script that deletes messages
> more than 6 months old from the Junk folder.
Looking at my nightly spam control job, I see that it essentially runs
find ~/.mail/.Junk/{new,cur} -type f -mtime +180 -delete
which deletes all files in the Junk folder that are more than 180 days old.
If instead of deleting those files you wanted to move them into another
directory, say $targetdir, then you could replace -delete in the above by
e.g.
-exec mv --target-directory=$targetdir '{}' +
See find(1) for details.
A.
Re: [Dovecot] Move to a Specific Folder
> Will this solution works even if I had a lot of messages or subfolders? Of course, if you know how to use the find(1) command. Test it carefully before you deploy it, though-- find | xargs rm is an extremely dangerous combination, since you'll probably need several iterations to get the find conditions right. > Will this index update take much time? I can't say for sure. All I can say is that I've never noticed any significant delay. If you run the job daily, then index updates might be smaller and take less time. Even if Dovecot has to rebuild the whole index, you could probably arrange to make that happen right after you run your deletion job, at off hours. A search for "dovecot rebuild index" turns up some discussion of this problem. Good luck, Andrew.
Re: [Dovecot] Move to a Specific Folder
Nope. Probably wouldn't be difficult to implement, but it's a pretty low priority for me.. On Sep 17, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Darvin Denmian wrote: Timo, I know this plugin, but instead of removing the messages I need to move them to a specific folder,can it do this? Thanks. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sep 17, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Darvin Denmian wrote: Is there a way to automatically expurge or move messages from a specific folder to another folder after "X" days? http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire
Re: [Dovecot] Move to a Specific Folder
Timo, I know this plugin, but instead of removing the messages I need to move them to a specific folder,can it do this? Thanks. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Sep 17, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Darvin Denmian wrote: > >> Is there a way to automatically expurge or move messages from a >> specific folder to another folder after "X" days? > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire > >
Re: [Dovecot] Move to a Specific Folder
On Sep 17, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Darvin Denmian wrote: Is there a way to automatically expurge or move messages from a specific folder to another folder after "X" days? http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire
Re: [Dovecot] Move to a Specific Folder
Will this solution works even if I had a lot of messages or subfolders? Will this index update take much time? Thanks ! On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> Is there a way to automatically expurge or move messages from a >> specific folder to another folder after "X" days? > > I use a daily cron job for this. It runs a script that deletes messages > more than 6 months old from the Junk folder. > > If you can do this directly in Dovecot, then I guess that's better, because > it will keep the folder indexes up to date. But I move messages around > outside of Dovecot and it works fine. Dovecot updates the indexes when I > view the folder, and there's not much delay. > > A. > >
Re: [Dovecot] Move to a Specific Folder
> Is there a way to automatically expurge or move messages from a > specific folder to another folder after "X" days? I use a daily cron job for this. It runs a script that deletes messages more than 6 months old from the Junk folder. If you can do this directly in Dovecot, then I guess that's better, because it will keep the folder indexes up to date. But I move messages around outside of Dovecot and it works fine. Dovecot updates the indexes when I view the folder, and there's not much delay. A.
Re: [Dovecot] Move to a Specific Folder
On Qui, 17 Set 2009, Darvin Denmian wrote: Is there a way to automatically expurge or move messages from a specific folder to another folder after "X" days? Where "X" specifies the amount of days that messages in folder will be kept. If it's maildir, you can use find(1) to search the messages and mv(1) them to another folder. The next time the folders are opened dovecot will update the indexes. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
