Well, I dug dipper and found ipurge... This is exactly the tool I was looking for, does a good job for me.
Besides - I wonder how long will reconstruct on a 400K msgs folder... Regards, D. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Sims Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 5:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Selective delete Dudi Goldenberg wrote: > Is there a way to delete all messages in a specific (or all?) IMAP > folders older then a specified number of days? > > I have a customer that holds ~50-500K msgs per folder.... An scheduled > cleanup sounds like a good idea here ;-) > > Running Cyrus v2.1.7 on Debian Sarge. I'm sure this isn't the recommended way to do it, but you could delete the message files then run reconstruct on the user's mailbox (after making a backup, of course). cd to the user's spool directory and run this: # find -type f -name '[0-9]*.' -mtime +365 That should give you a list of which messages are older than a year (adjust to desired value). If it looks right then this should do the trick: # find -type f -name '[0-9]*.' -mtime +365 -print0 | xargs -0 rm Now run reconstuct on the user's mailbox and then rebuild the quota files and you should be set. Maybe someone else can suggest a way to do this through IMAP so you don't have to get behind Cyrus's interface... HTH --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
