On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 05:54:27 -0500 "Administrator :: pLAN9" <ad...@plan9.co> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Is this setting global to all mailboxes? Just > because I have 5 email accounts on the server. Ideally I would like > to have just the account that the cameras use to be auto emptied. Can > this setting be applied to only certain users/folders? I think it is global setting. As the config file is actually a shell script, it is probably possible to do something on a per mailbox base. I don't know. But you can create a special folder for your videos, not used for other mailboxes, and apply the setting for this. From imapd config file: ------- 8< -------------------------------------------------------------- ##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. # ------- 8< -------------------------------------------------------------- If you use folder name like KeptFor90Days and set in your imapd config IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=KeptFor90Days:90 it should do what you want (and you can expect nobody else to use such a weird folder name in their mailbox). Regards, Milan > On 6/22/25 5:32 AM, Milan Obuch wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 04:31:29 -0500 > > "Administrator :: pLAN9 via Courier-imap" > > <courier-imap@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > >> Hello, I've been a very happy courier-imap user for over 10 years > >> now for my personal mail server. I wanted to know if courier-imap > >> has any mechanism built in for mail retention. About a year ago I > >> added an email account on the server for my security cameras, and > >> configured them to email me 15 second videos when motion is > >> detected. This work fine, but the size of the inbox is growing to > >> over 10GB in size. This makes it a bit slow for initial syncs of > >> the inbox. Does courier-imap offer a way to, perhaps, only keep > >> the last 60 or 90 days of mail, and delete older ones? The server > >> is running Arch, btw. Thanks! > > Hi, > > > > look for IMAP_EMPTYTRASH settings in imapd config file. I think this > > could be what you are looking for. > > > > Regards, > > Milan _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list Courier-imap@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
