On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:28:28 +0200, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: > On 17.2.2012, at 0.39, Przemysław Orzechowski wrote: > >> I need to delete old mails from over 100 mailboxes with average of 10k >> mails / mailbox >> Is there a way to delete old mails (by message date not file creation >> date) as with doveadm in dovecot 2 ? > > You can delete them by mtime or by ctime: > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire#v1.0_cronjob_equivalent > > If by "message date" you mean the Date: header, then there's no easy way.
Yes Date header unfortunatly (seems i will have to write some kind of script for that) Just to be sure just deleting mail files is safe? Or do i have to run some additional commands to recreate dovecots index files? I'm using Maildir. Asking just to be sure that I will not screw up something.
