On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 12:08 +0200, Pascal Volk wrote: > On 07/30/2010 12:01 PM Bernd Schmelter wrote: > > I`m using Dovecot 2.0 with only one lokal user, so it`s imho overkill to > > use mysql. > > plugin quota with flat file running fine. > > > > It's possible expire also running with flat file? What's syntax in > > dovecot.conf (expire > > = file:??? and expire_dict?) > > I've never used the expire plugin. But if you want to remove only old > mails from single account, I'd recommend a cronjob, which executes > doveadm expunge …. > See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Expunge
Yeah, with a single user there's absolutely no point in even enabling expire plugin. It simply optimizes which users are gone through with doveadm expunge -A. Expire plugin is beginning to make sense only after you've thousands of users.
