ipurge, or automatic expiration feature.

[Ken Murchison]

mark london wrote:

> I want to be able to have messages in a folder automatically purged 
> after the messages are a certain amount of days old.  The ipurge 
> application seems to be what I want, but I haven't gotten it working. 
> First, I can't get it to work at all unless I run it under the cyrus 
> account.  Otherwise, it gives me the error:
> 
> ipurge: can't initialize mboxlist environment

Only the cyrus user has direct access to the mailboxes and environment.

> However,  even though under the cyrus account it doesn't give me any 
> error messages, it still doesn't seem to work. I issue the command:
> 
> ipurge -f -d 1 mrl.INBOX.Spam
> 
> But messages still stay in my Spam folder.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.

ipurge -f -d 1 user.mrl.Spam


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