> On 7 Feb 2016, at 02:50, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have some users where I'd like to expunge their mail at different times.
>
> For example, I may have some users who I want to expunge everything from
> every folder at 30 days.
>
> Others where I'd like to expunge everything at 90 days.
>
> And still others where I only want to expunge mail from the Trash and Junk
> folders, and nowhere else.
>
> Is there a way to do some sort of lookup for this? Or is this beyond the
> ability of the autoexpunge feature? Should I just use a cron job and use
> "doveadm expunge" on a user-by-user basis?
>
> Thanks-
I think you’ll need a script for this. At the most basic level you could just
create a bash script, add a bunch of expunge commands and then run it every day
(or week or whatever) via crontab. For example:
doveadm expunge -u [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> \( mailbox Trash or mailbox Junk \) savedBefore
30d
doveadm expunge -u [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> savedBefore 90d
And so-on. Also, don’t forget to add a purge command if you’re using the mdbox
format, in my case I’d add this to the start of the script, so messages aren’t
purged right away (i.e- expunged messages are not purged until the next time
the script runs), but this only applies to that format.
More complex logic will require a more complex script, I’ve been working on
something of my own but I don’t know if I’d call it ready yet, and I’m not
aware of anything else pre-made that will do it, but hopefully others can weigh
in if there is.
