On 6/11/2009 6:37 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: >>>> it doesn't do anything (especially not deleting e-mails). >>>> Obviously, in stef/Trash and stef/Spam, there are e-mails >>>> waiting to be deleted.
>>> It doesn't go by the email date, it goes by the date/time the >>> email was moved into that folder. >>> >>> In other words, it won't effect emails that were *already* *in* >>> the folder. >>> >>> Personally, I'd love to see the tool have an option to go by the >>> email date/time instead of when it was moved into the folder... >> So in that case could you move them out and back again? I am >> considering using the plugin, but I'm still in the info gathering >> phase. > You only need to move one mail into the mailbox so that the mailbox > gets added to the database. Once that mail gets expunged, all the > other old existing mails get expunged along with it. !? This isn't what you said when this was discussed earlier earlier: > On 2/4/2009 12:17 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 11:27 +0100, Nicolas Letellier wrote: >>> Info: us...@domain.tld/Trash: stop, expire time in future: Wed >>> Feb 4 21:00:50 2009 >>> >>> Why this message? I have 3 mailboxes, and the message appears >>> only with this mailbox. >>> The 2 others mailbox have mails into Trash and Junk folders. And >>> the mail are older than 2 days. An ls -lcs say it. >> Dovecot tracks the timestamp when the message was copied to Trash, >> not necessary its ctime. So you probably copied the message to >> Trash on Feb 3 21:00:50, which is why it'll get expunged at Feb 4 >> 21:00:50. >>> In a mailbox1, I have this into Junk/cur directory: >>> 4 -rw------- 1 dovecot dovecot 3822 Feb 2 13:39 >>> 1233569469.M275631P48216.***.***.net,S=3822,W=3945:2,S >>> 4 -rw------- 1 dovecot dovecot 3004 Feb 2 15:43 >>> 1233585799.M730005P46882.***.***.net,W=3078,S=3004:2,S >>> 4 -rw------- 1 dovecot dovecot 3056 Feb 2 17:49 >>> 1233587786.M676156P51401.***.***.net,S=3056,W=3132:2,S >>> 4 -rw------- 1 dovecot dovecot 3732 Feb 2 17:49 >>> 1233592892.M701994P52459.***.***.net,S=3732,W=3823:2,S >>> >>> We are Feb 4, and these message are always here. No informations >>> with mail_debug, or with --test parameter.These messages were arrived >>> Feb 2, and they might have this date in dovecot.index.cache... >> Was expire plugin enabled then? If it wasn't, it didn't add them to its >> database so it doesn't know about them. ... has this changed? Or am I seriosuly misunderstanding what you said? Or... you said 'the mailbox'... does this apply only to mbox files, or to maildirs too? Thanks for the clarification Timo... -- Best regards, Charles
