Re: remove old trash from imap, server side



On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 12:09 +0000, Adam James wrote:
> 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

Nah, that's too easy!!!

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