Re: Deleting messages "marked for deletion" older than X days

2008-08-19 Thread Gerard Beekmans
nge/whatever it, else skip it. Gerard Beekmans IT Manager Achilles Media Tel: 403-678-1216 ext. 102 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Deleting messages "marked for deletion" older than X days

2008-08-19 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Wesley, I looked at ipurge but I find it also happily deletes messages that weren't marked for deletion. It appears to delete everything older than X days, regardless of that \Deleted flag mentioned in another reply. Gerard Beekmans IT Manager Achilles Media Tel: 403-678-1216 ext. 102

Re: Deleting messages "marked for deletion" older than X days

2008-08-18 Thread Gerard Beekmans
I'll do some more checking then. My cyr_expire version doesn't even have the -X option (I'm testing this on a system that has cyrus imap 2.2.13 as its recent version). Gerard Beekmans IT Manager Achilles Media Tel: 403-678-1216 ext. 102 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kenneth

Re: Deleting messages "marked for deletion" older than X days

2008-08-18 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Hi Ken, From the description it seems like cyr_expire will apply to every email in a mailbox. I don't want to delete any regular emails other than the ones already marked for deletion by an email client who is lacking a decent purge feature. Gerard Beekmans IT Manager Achilles Medi

Deleting messages "marked for deletion" older than X days

2008-08-18 Thread Gerard Beekmans
ays and purges/deletes them on the client's behalf. Some pointers are appreciated. I can write the scripts (shell, perl, whatever) myself if need be, just need to know how to start going about obtaining such a specific list of messages. Thanks, -- Gerard Beekmans IT Manager Achilles Media T