On 30/12/05, Adam James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:47 +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > > > > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what > > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older > > than six months. > > > > Is there any functionality built into courier or should I make a cron > > job? What are others doing? > > From '/etc/courier/imapd': > > ##NAME: IMAP_EMPTYTRASH:0 > # > # The following setting is optional, and causes messages from the given > # folder to be automatically deleted after the given number of days. > # IMAP_EMPTYTRASH is a comma-separated list of folder:days. The default > # setting, below, purges 7 day old messages from the Trash folder. > # Another useful setting would be: > # > # IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7,Sent:30
That setting affects every user. I want to do the same thing, but have seperate settings for each user. After talking to the courier mailing list it looks like courier doesnt' have this functionality. It seems the only way is to write a script and run through cron. -- Take care, eh. Chris
