ipurge only for specified mailboxes

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

Hi,

we're considering a policy for our users where mail in the INBOX gets 
deleted after 1 year. The rationale for this is that people who want to 
archive all their mail should use separate folders. This would only affect 
users who use POP but leave all their mail on the server (happens all too 
often) and those who never read their mail. This happens as well, because 
we have many orphaned accounts.

So I thought we might use ipurge for that. However, ipurge works 
recursively. When I do "ipurge -f -d 365 user/xxx" (we're using both 
altnamespace and unixhierarchysep) *all* that user's old mail get deleted. 
I looked at the source, but at first glance I didn't see a way to avoid 
that.

Any ideas regarding this? Is it worthwhile to try to add the functionality 
to ipurge or should we just roll our own with a Perl script?

Thanks, Sebastian
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Sebastian Hagedorn M.A. - RZKR-R1 (Gebäude 52), Zimmer 18
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