Automatically expire messages in imap folder

[Dwight Tovey]

Adi Linden said:
>> You can use 'ipurge' in a cron script.  I have my users put their spam
>> in
>> a "Spam" folder then have a nightly cron job run 'sa-learn' on it
>> followed
>> by:
>>  su cyrus -c '/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ipurge -f -d 10 user/dwight/Spam'
>>
>> This deletes anything over 10 days old.
>
> What is 'sa-learn'?
>

It's for SpamAssassin (http://au.spamassassin.org/index.html). It
"teaches" SA about spam messages so that supposedly SA will catch them
automatically instead of user's having to drag them into the Spam mailbox.

    /dwight

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