On 27/09/2011 13:31, John Hinton wrote: > For those of you running mailservers on CentOS 6, what are the > suggestions for programs to expunge old email? For instance, deleting > email from a Spam folder that is 2 weeks old or older. > > I see that Dovecot does have a solution, but was wondering about what > others have landed on. > > My systems are basically Postfix, Dovecot using Maildir. > > Thanks, > John Hinton > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I just use a daily cron job with regex, never had much luck with dovecots method: # delete 30 day old mails from Trash find /var/mail/ -regex '.*/\.\(Trash\|Junk\)\(/.*\)?\/\(cur\|new\)/.*' -type f -ctime +30 -exec rm '{}' \; # delete 200 day old mails from mailinglists find /var/mail/ -regex '.*/\.\(Fedora\|Atrpms\|Centos\|Mythtv\)\(/.*\)?\/\(cur\|new\)/.*' -type f -ctime +200 -exec rm '{}' \; cheers Dunc