Hi Dunc,

That is perfect, I will try that. Thanks.

Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:17:00 +0000 From: Dunc centos@duncb.co.uk Subject: Re: [CentOS] Maildir Cleanup To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Message-ID: 45C47D3C.4020300@duncb.co.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Jun Salen wrote:

Hi all,

I found an article (with python script) on how to clean up Maildir folder for old email messages from

http://www.ducea.com/2006/11/25/cleanup-maildir-folders-archive-delete-old-m...

. As I understand, this will be run by each user after login. How can I make this runs at least once

a

month and delete all users message with age more than one

month

for example using crontab? I am using Postfix, MailScanner, SpamAssassin, Courier IMAP/POP3, ClamAV and CentOS4.4 as mail server. If you need further input, please just let me know. Thanks in advance

for

help. Thanks.

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Why not just use the IMAP_EMPTYTRASH option in imapd?

From the imapd

config file:

##NAME: IMAP_EMPTYTRASH:0 # # The following setting is optional, and causes

messages from the given

# folder to be automatically deleted after the given

number of days.

# IMAP_EMPTYTRASH is a comma-separated list of

folder:days. The default

# setting, below, purges 7 day old messages from the

Trash folder.

# Another useful setting would be: # # IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7,Sent:30 # # This would also delete messages from the Sent

folder (presumably copies

# of sent mail) after 30 days. This is a global

setting that is

applied to # every mail account, and is probably useful in a

controlled, corporate

# environment. # # Important: the purging is controlled by CTIME, not

MTIME (the file time

# as shown by ls). It is perfectly ordinary to see

stuff in Trash that's

# a year old. That's the file modification time,

MTIME, that's displayed.

# This is generally when the message was originally

delivered to this

# mailbox. Purging is controlled by a different

timestamp, CTIME,

which is # changed when the file is moved to the Trash folder

(and at other

times too). # # You might want to disable this setting in certain

situations - it

results # in a stat() of every file in each folder, at login

and logout.

#

IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7,Sent:30

I dont use courier any more but back when I did I used it to delete mailing list messages more than 6 months old

hope this helps

Dunc

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