> On 7 Feb 2016, at 10:17, Haravikk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> 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.
Just a note, but please disregard the extra e-mail in the angle brackets, OS
X’s Mail seems to have added these automatically, the sample commands should
look like:
doveadm expunge -u [email protected] \( mailbox Trash or mailbox
Junk \) savedBefore 30d
doveadm expunge -u [email protected] savedBefore 90d
