On Tue, Oct 14, Rob Siemborski wrote: > > I recently sat down over a customer bug report and found out, that ipurge uses > > the sent date (which is what is in the Date: Header of a mail or the offset > > OFFSET_SENTDATE) to determine the age of a single message. The problem with > > that is, that there's an increasing amount of messages (sort SPAM) with dates > > in the far future and therefor these mails won't get deleted using ipurge. > > > > A short look at the source made me try to use OFFSET_INTERNALDATE (from > > imap/mailbox.h), which seems to do what I want, deleting mails which had been > > received n days ago. > > > > Is that assumption right, or do I have to reckon some strange side effects? > > This will probably do what you want. > > If a patch was supplied to make this be handled by a command-line option, > we'd probably take it (it shouldn't be that much work).
Yes. It's quite simple, but I don't want to do it without asking. I'll submit it if it is ready. -- With best regards, Carsten Hoeger
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