On 2010-01-25 8:53 AM, gstyle wrote: > Every night I run a script calling archivemail ( > http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/) to delete all messages in the Spam > folder that are older than 30 days > > archivemail deletes the files directly in the Maildir folder. I am not using > IMAP for this (cause I don't want to store the passwords in plain text). > > I know that dovecot uses index files to speed up Maildir access. Will there > be any problems with the index files when I delete the old spam like this?
No, the indexes are self-healing, but... You'd be better off upgrading to the latest stable version (via backports) and using the expire plugin - its made for doing things just like this. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire -- Best regards, Charles
