On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Charles Marcus wrote:
Marc Perkel, on 2/18/2008 11:28 AM, said the following:
I'm looking for a way to empty user's trash folder. Can message
deletion or folder purging be scheduled?
It would be a nice feature in Dovecot to have it be able to remove
messages older than say 3 days from Trash automatically.
V 1.1 already can (see Expire plug-in), but I'm not sure if this only
happens at use3r log in or not...
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire
Said I: (in the thread "Deleting messages from MailDir")
Does the expunge plugin work without the user logging in, though?
Timo responded:
Yes. That's exactly what it does. It keeps user/mailbox <-> oldest_msg
mapping in a Berkeley DB. In a nightly (or whatever) run it then uses
the database to open only those mailboxes that have messages to be
expunged.
Best,
Ben
