On Feb 25, 2013, at 01.45, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: > On 25.2.2013, at 4.50, b...@bitrate.net wrote: > >> i'm running doveadm search: >> >>> doveadm search -A mailbox sent savedbefore 365d >>> >> >> and it's returning no results. >> >> a similar command does return some results: >> >>> doveadm search -A mailbox sent savedbefore 120d | grep -iF 'jdoe' >> jdoe 7b9a8b0b7d37504fe72c000055e4fe9a 65 >> jdoe 7b9a8b0b7d37504fe72c000055e4fe9a 66 > .. >> >> however, i see many messages in the sent mailbox much older than 365 days: > > Note that Dovecot has 3 timestamps: > > * sent date : The Date: header > * received date : In maildir the file's mtime > * save date : In maildir either in dovecot.index.cache or the file's ctime
thanks, this clarifies things for me. ultimately, this question comes in the context of expunging messages older [fsvo older, as per the above metrics] than a certain age. is doveadm expunge [...] generally considered the appropriate method for such a task? presumably via a cron job? -ben
