Timo Sirainen schrieb: > I'm getting tired of explaining again and again how expire plugin is > supposed to work, so I added now Example #1 timeline and Example #2 > timeline to http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire which tell exactly > what is supposed to happen with a couple of examples. Do they finally > help understanding how exactly things are supposed to work?
Hi Timo, your examples are well to understand, i ve tested the mysql setup also using ... --test everything looks fine and works as it should but mails dont get deleted, i am testing this with 1.2.1 since a few days, any hint what to search for in the logs to find out whats going wrong ? Anyway the time should be set more shortly for testing waiting 1 day minimum isnt really fun > > Unfortunately X-SAVEDATE doesn't work with current 1.2 versions, because > of a bug. If you want to look at them, you can apply this patch to > v1.2.1: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/f353c5b71097 > > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:58 -0500, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote: >> Dear Timo, >> >> As I understand with regard to Expire plugin is marking the folder will >> be deleted in a certain amount of days and that the deletion is >> performed by expire-tool >> >> Expire plugin works correctly, and >> I can check on the database folder has been marked, the problem is with >> expire-tool as it does the deletion. >> >> This is intended to expire Expire Plugin-tool? >> >> Please require your help to solve this problem. >> >> I apologize for my low level of knowledge about these issues, but what >> interests me is to learn. >> >> Thanks >> >> Jose Luis >> >>> From: [email protected] >>> To: [email protected] >>> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:18:28 -0500 >>> CC: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Problems with Expire Plugin >>> >>> >>> Dear Timo >>> >>> I have set up crontab to run the tool expires at midnight >>> >>> When running with the --test option: >>> >>> Info: User lookup failed: [email protected] >>> Info: [email protected]/INBOX.Papelera: no messages left >>> >>> When running without the --test option: >>> >>> Does not leave any message and there are no data in the table expires of >>> Mysql >>> >>> I reviewed the Trash folder and still holds the emails. >>> >>> >>> It should be noted that for purposes of the test today I sent two >>> emails and copied to the Papelera folder so that after executing the >>> end-tool should be removed >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Jose Luis >>> >>>> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Problems with Expire Plugin >>>> From: [email protected] >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> CC: [email protected] >>>> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:57:19 -0400 >>>> >>>> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 12:12 -0500, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote: >>>>> Now my problem is with expire-tool because it is not deleting the >>>>> emails in the folder that has been marked by Expire Plugin. >>>> Did you read how exactly it works? >>>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire >>>> >>>>> This is the command that I run through crontab: >>>>> >>>>> /usr/local/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext >>>>> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool >>>> Giving --test parameter shows what it's really doing. >>>> >>>>> | [email protected]/INBOX.Papelera | 1247162400 | >>>> 1247162400 = Thu Jul 9 18:00:00 UTC 2009 >>>> >>>> So it should have started checking and expunging oldest message(s) from >>>> this mailbox about an hour ago (as of when I'm writing this mail). >>>> >>> _________________________________________________________________ >>> News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! >>> http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Explore the seven wonders of the world >> http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria
