> On 29 Jan 2016, at 17:09, Haravikk <e-m...@haravikk.me> wrote: > > >> On 29 Jan 2016, at 14:29, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: >> >> \Recent flag is special and you can't add/remove it. It's not even >> internally stored like regular flags. > > Are you certain? The following commands seem to work just fine: > > doveadm flags add -A ‘\Recent’ OLD UNSEEN > doveadm search -A NEW > > Before I ran the first command, the second wouldn’t return anything, so > \Recent does seem to be set via doveadm flags, doveadm fetch flags also seems > to confirm this.
I don't know how that would be possible. >> I think what you want instead is: >> >> doveadm expunge -A old seen savedbefore 7d mailbox Trash > > While you’re right that I should probably be using saved before, I’m trying > to find an alternative to this specific command because it seems like it > would be possible for a message that’s 7 days old to potentially to be opened > by the user such that is flagged as seen, but is actually still being read > when the command is run, allowing it to be expunged before the user has a > chance to do anything with it. Or is the saved before value updated when > flags are changed? There are no timestamps that are updated when a message flags are changed. I suppose if you have a nightly cronjob you could run: doveadm expunge -A keyword seen-yesterday mailbox Trash doveadm flags add -A 'seen-yesterday' seen savedbefore 7d mailbox Trash So it guarantees that the \Seen flag was added at least the day before.
