Jose Celestino wrote:
Words by José Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa [Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:47:30PM -0700]:
Hi!
I want to automatically delete old messages from one user's Maildir, and I was
thinking on running something like this:
find /home/user/Maildir/cur/ /home/user/Maildir/new/ -daystart -mtime +15
-delete
but I'm not sure if by deleting messages "manually" I will break the
dovecot.index* files.
What do you think?
The index files will "auto-fix".
that said, deleting messages from the new/ directory is a bit risky...
also, for safety, better move the messages to another place (in the same
partition, to avoid a copy) and have another job delete them from that
place (maybe few days later).
