In my boredom, I was cleaning up my own public mailbox, do I really need
lists/newsletters/forums posts from the 90's .. I think not, but lets
still keep 5 years and expunge the rest... or try to... but expunge
doesnt want too...
This error or lack of action, occurs on any mailbox, as an example
doveadm expunge -u my@email mailbox Lists.FreeRadius SAVEDBEFORE $
now for $, pick your value 5 y/Y for years doesn't appear to exist, so
converting it into 30 odd weeks, 30w or 30W did nothing, but rough
convert it down to days 1800D appears to do something - showing a delay
before returning to command line, but in reality it does nothing, 1800,
1500, 1200, nothing, only when I drop it to 1000D does it actually work,
which is not suitable, since I'd like to keep 5 years worth.
Running doveadm -Dv exp... shows no errors just usual debug output
about the base modules, quota stuff, and opening mailbox message
followed then by user session closed, nothing at all anywhere that
points to an error for executing this task, I did deliberately break it
by altering the mailbox name to test and it rightfully did report the
error the mailbox doesn't exist.
I thought it might be size related, freeradius one of the smaller lists
having about 150k to nanog the biggest with over 400k message, but I
have others, like monthly newsletters with over 20yrs worth, but only
250 to 300 messages in their mailboxes that also fail, so it can't be
barfing out at the size.
Aki, any ideas? Or have I have hit a ridiculously low 1000D hard coded
limit?
...and I know some troll will comment, so let me say yes I know I can
and will likely have to use nix's "find" to actually cull them, but if
doveadm has an expunge option, it should do what it is asked of it :)
# doveconf -a
# 2.3.20 (80a5ac675d): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.5.20 (149edcf2)
# OS: Linux 5.15.117 x86_64 Slackware 15.0 ext4
- Yes I know 2.3.21 was released 2 days ago, but I'm not seeing anything
in changelog/NEWS that's related
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