Dovecot has hardcoded root prevention. For delivery, too.
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-------- Original message --------From: "@lbutlr" <[email protected]> Date:
04/05/2018 15:24 (GMT+02:00) To: dovecot <[email protected]> Subject:
expiring mail from root's Maildirs?
I would like to delete old mail from root's sent mailbox but doveadm throws
errors when I try to do this, not wanting to process root's mail at all (I am
running the commands as root, naturally)
# doveadm expunge -u root mailbox Sent SENTBEFORE 1-Apr-2018
doveadm(root): Error: Invalid settings in userdb: userdb returned 0 as uid
doveadm(root): Error: User lookup failed: Invalid user settings. Refer to
server log for more information.
The error makes me think this is intentional, and I can see that makes a sort
of sense, but it still leaves me with a Sent box that grow forever until I
manually go in and remove old mails.
I am using passed for userdb and pam for passdb:
passdb {
username_filter = "!*@*"
driver = pam
}
userdb {
driver = passwd
}
Can I do this with doveadm or am going to have to resort to either manually
removing the mail (hah!) or just crontabbing a task to remove the files more
than 30 days old?
