Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 10:37 -0500, Bruce Bodger wrote: > On Feb 19, 2008, at 6:06 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > Still, the expire plugin is not the easiest plugin to configure. > Getting the error "Unknown dict module: db" which, on Sept. 24, > 2007, you explained as... > > > The problem

Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-19 Thread Bruce Bodger
On Feb 19, 2008, at 6:06 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: Still, the expire plugin is not the easiest plugin to configure. Getting the error "Unknown dict module: db" which, on Sept. 24, 2007, you explained as... The problem is that imap binary isn't linked with libdb, so this doesn't work. Y

Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-19 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Feb 19, 2008, at 12:21 AM, Bruce Bodger wrote: As far as I can tell, the expire plugin does not require a cron job to do its thing... Guess we'll need some clarification from Timo, Charles, because the 1.1.beta16 dovecot-example.conf states... # Expire plugin. Mails are expunged from m

Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/18/2008, Bruce Bodger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Guess we'll need some clarification from Timo, Charles, because the 1.1.beta16 dovecot-example.conf states... # The actual expunging is done in a nightly cronjob, # which you must set up: # dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/ex

Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-18 Thread Bruce Bodger
On Feb 18, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: The cron job is only for v 1.0.x systems. The expire plugin only works on 1.1+ Agreed As far as I can tell, the expire plugin does not require a cron job to do its thing... Guess we'll need some clarification from Timo, Charles, because

Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/18/2008, Bruce Bodger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Excuse me but somebody, maybe me?, is confusing the expire plugin with the lazy_expunge plugin. From reading the fine documentation, it appears that... 1. There is no expunge plugin, only a lazy_expunge plugin Well. that is correct,

Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-18 Thread Bruce Bodger
On Feb 18, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Charles Marcus wrote: Marc Perkel, on 2/18/2008 11:28 AM, said the following: I'm looking for a way to empty user's trash folder. Can message deletion or folder purging be scheduled? It would be a nice feature i

Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-18 Thread Charles Marcus
Benjamin R. Haskell, on 2/18/2008 12:52 PM, said the following: Said I: (in the thread "Deleting messages from MailDir") Does the expunge plugin work without the user logging in, though? Timo responded: Yes. That's exactly what it does. It keeps user/mailbox <-> oldest_msg mapping in a Berkel

Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-18 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Charles Marcus wrote: Marc Perkel, on 2/18/2008 11:28 AM, said the following: I'm looking for a way to empty user's trash folder. Can message deletion or folder purging be scheduled? It would be a nice feature in Dovecot to have it be able to remove messages older than s

Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-18 Thread Charles Marcus
Marc Perkel, on 2/18/2008 11:28 AM, said the following: I'm looking for a way to empty user's trash folder. Can message deletion or folder purging be scheduled? It would be a nice feature in Dovecot to have it be able to remove messages older than say 3 days from Trash automatically. V 1.1 a

Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-18 Thread Marc Perkel
Pietro wrote: Hi all. I'm looking for a way to empty user's trash folder. Can message deletion or folder purging be scheduled? Thanks in advance. -Pietro. It would be a nice feature in Dovecot to have it be able to remove messages older than say 3 days from Trash automatically.

Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-18 Thread Tomi Hakala
Pietro wrote: Thanks a lot Ronald. Is there any issue I must consider about dovecot indexes? Dovecot will log an warning but nothing much else, so it is pretty safe. Tomi -Pietro. 2008/2/18, Ronald MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 18/02/2008, Pietro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all. I'

Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-18 Thread Pietro
Thanks a lot Ronald. Is there any issue I must consider about dovecot indexes? -Pietro. 2008/2/18, Ronald MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 18/02/2008, Pietro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all. > > I'm looking for a way to empty user's trash folder. > > Can message deletion or folder purgi

Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-18 Thread Ronald MacDonald
On 18/02/2008, Pietro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > I'm looking for a way to empty user's trash folder. > Can message deletion or folder purging be scheduled? > > Thanks in advance. > > -Pietro. > Of course. Run a cron job to search, for example, for files older than a certain date. Dele

[Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-18 Thread Pietro
Hi all. I'm looking for a way to empty user's trash folder. Can message deletion or folder purging be scheduled? Thanks in advance. -Pietro.