Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:47 +0800, Chris Purves wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what
> is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older
> than six months.
>
> Is there any functionality built into courier or should I make a cron
> job? What are others doing?

From '/etc/courier/imapd':

##NAME: IMAP_EMPTYTRASH:0
#
# The following setting is optional, and causes messages from the given
# folder to be automatically deleted after the given number of days.
# IMAP_EMPTYTRASH is a comma-separated list of folder:days. The default
# setting, below, purges 7 day old messages from the Trash folder.
# Another useful setting would be:
#
# IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7,Sent:30
#
# This would also delete messages from the Sent folder (presumably
copies
# of sent mail) after 30 days. This is a global setting that is applied
to
# every mail account, and is probably useful in a controlled, corporate
# environment.
#
# Important: the purging is controlled by CTIME, not MTIME (the file
time
# as shown by ls). It is perfectly ordinary to see stuff in Trash
that's
# a year old. That's the file modification time, MTIME, that's
displayed.
# This is generally when the message was originally delivered to this
# mailbox. Purging is controlled by a different timestamp, CTIME, which
is
# changed when the file is moved to the Trash folder (and at other times
too).
#
# You might want to disable this setting in certain situations - it
results
# in a stat() of every file in each folder, at login and logout.
#

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Adam James <ad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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