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List:       info-cyrus
Subject:    Re: Auto-deletion of messages in Junk-folder after a certain time
From:       urgrue <urgrue () bulbous ! org>
Date:       2008-07-17 10:21:07
Message-ID: 487F1D13.6030208 () bulbous ! org
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I use for example ipurge -fd 30 user.*.SPAM
to delete everything older than 30 days from all user's SPAM dir.
and have never experienced any weird/unexpected behaviour or problems.


Mike Eggleston wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Marten Lehmann might have said:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> we have a virtual domain configuration and I want to remove all messages 
>> within the folder
>>
>> user/<any-userpart>@<any-domain>/Junk/*
>>
>> I don't want to mark old messages as deleted and expunge them, because 
>> then maybe I'm expunging messages, that haven't been flagged as deleted 
>> by me but the owner of the mailbox and aren't ment to be expunged at 
>> this moment.
>>
>> I have heard of cyr_expire and ipurge, but that information is several 
>> years old.
>>
>> What is the currently recommended way to auto-delete messages after a 
>> certain time (e.g. 60 days)?
>> Which date is typically used for the deletion? The date of the delivery 
>> to Cyrus?
>> Is a verbose output available (e.g. with the log of sender-address and 
>> subject of the deleted messages)?
>>
>> Btw.: We are using an older version of cyrus, 2.2.12 (as it comes with 
>> RHEL4) and we have no chance to update it at the moment.
> 
> I use a combination of cyr_expire and a perl script that expunges any
> message marked for deletion.
> 
> Mike
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