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List:       dovecot
Subject:    RE: autoexpunge clarification
From:       "Michael Fox" <news () mefox ! org>
Date:       2016-08-31 15:44:12
Message-ID: 009c01d2039e$85e996c0$91bcc440$ () mefox ! org
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Thanks Philon,

I did read the extra bullets, as indicated in my email below.  But your "When the \
user quits and thus closes his mailbox/connection" is more clear than "after the \
client is already disconnected", since the latter is really anytime, rather than at \
the time they quit.

I can guess that the bulletin about LMTP similarly means at the end of each time LMTP \
delivers mail to the mailbox.

Assuming that is true, then the problem I see with autoexpunge is that it doesn't \
address the case of a user that has not logged in nor received mail in that mailbox \
for the specified time.  Those messages would apparently stay forever.  Correct?

And, if that's true, then the cron job seems like the only way to expunge all old \
messages.  Correct?

Thanks,
Michael


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dovecot [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Philon
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 12:41 AM
> To: Michael Fox <news@mefox.org>
> Cc: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org>
> Subject: Re: autoexpunge clarification
> 
> Hi Micheal,
> 
> the article is fine if you continue reading it to the next bullet points
> about IMAP, POP3 and LMTP. In short words…
> 
> When the user quits and thus closes his mailbox/connection, Dovecot
> quickly looks through the folders to clean up mails which are older then
> configured days.
> 
> In the past there was a cron job which could do this every n hours, days,
> … but this setting does this automatically. Still I prefer using cron
> which gives me more control over when this lookup happens.
> 
> User deinitialization is simply developer „slang" for user closes
> connection/quits his program.
> 
> 
> Philon
> 
> > Am 30.08.2016 um 14:41 schrieb Michael Fox <news@mefox.org>:
> > 
> > I'm trying to understand autoexpunge, but the documentation is just not
> > clear.  Hopefully, someone can clear up a few questions.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings says the following:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > autoexpunge=<time>: (v2.2.20+) Automatically at user deinitialization
> > expunge all mails in this mailbox whose saved-timestamp is older than
> <time>
> > (e.g. autoexpunge=30d). This removes the need for expire plugin
> > <http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire>  if you don't care that the
> > expunging may not always happen in time.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > What does "at user deinitialization" mean?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > What does "if you don't care that the expunging may not always happen in
> > time" mean?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I read the sub-bullets but they just aren't clear.  When exactly does
> > autoexpunge occur?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
> > 


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