On Wednesday 26 November 2008 20.57.10 Jakob Curdes wrote: > I myself wrote: > > Hi, I try to get expire working, with the BDB backend and mbox > > mailboxes. (...) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext > > /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool --test > > Error: read(/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Remote > > disconnected > > > > Hmm. I searched for hints but could not find a related discussion > > or problem. > > Here are the relavant config parts: > > My first finding is that I need to enable db when doing ./configure. > Now I see a berkeley database tree in the /var/run/dovecot/ > directory. However this has the timestamp of the last restart and > does not change even when I access one of my expire-configured > folders (backu and spam). Should the DB not be updated every time I > access one of these folders? I have no namespaces and the folders are > directly in the user's home dirs. > > But at least the expire-tool now runs silently. Totally silently. No > output at all....
Maybe you'll find this thread useful: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-October/034747.html -- LEVAI Daniel PGP key ID = 0x4AC0A4B1 Key fingerprint = D037 03B9 C12D D338 4412 2D83 1373 917A 4AC0 A4B1