I ended up using JavaMail API to delete the messages. It worked fine for me. Haven't explored other options.
Thank you, Giri On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Gustavo Sousa <sous...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Did you have success on your approaches? I have the same requirement and I > would like to try the MailboxMapper approach, because I believe it would me > more graceful. Would you please give me more information regarding this > Interface and how to apply it on my server? > > Thanks in advance. > > Gustavo. > > > 2015-03-06 12:11 GMT-03:00 Girivaraprasad Nambari <girinamb...@gmail.com>: > > > Thanks for your answer Benoit! I will try to explore based on your > points. > > > > I think another approach could be use Java Mail API to get this done*. > > *Will > > explore. > > > > Thank you, > > Giri > > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Benoit Tellier <btell...@linagora.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Giri, > > > > > > This can be done quite easily by providing a mailbox tool for it... > > > > > > It would iterate on all messages of all mailboxes and would delete > mails > > > using the internal date. > > > > > > It seems not pretty hard to do... > > > > > > 1 : Add a method to MailboxMapper allowing you to retrieve the full > > > list of mailboxes ( not yet implemented ... But I will need it too... ) > > > 2 : Iterate on all messages of this mailbox. If too old delete it > > > directly. There's a delete method in the message mapper for that. > > > > > > With that you will have a script you can put in some cron to do what > you > > > want. > > > > > > Benoit. > > > > > > Le 06/03/2015 04:37, Girivaraprasad Nambari a écrit : > > > > Hi James community, > > > > > > > > How are you? > > > > > > > > We are using James-beat3.0. We have a unique requirement, > > > > > > > > 1) We would need to delete all emails received before certain date > > > > (automatically) using through some script (or) JMX calls or something > > > like > > > > that. Is this supported in James? If so, could you provide some > > pointers? > > > > > > > > We are using mysqldb as backend. > > > > > > > > 2) We *don't* want to keep deleted messages in "Trash", delete means > > > > complete delete from our database. > > > > > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > Giri > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Gustavo Henrique de Araújo e Sousa > > Bacharel em Ciência da Computação > > UFLA - Universidade Federal de Lavras >
