automatically delete emails after a few days
    Ken Murchison 
    murch at andrew.cmu.edu
       
    Mon Dec  5 08:45:51 EST 2005
    
    
  
Thomas Vogt wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Is there an easy way to delete mails after a certain period? Let's
> assume every user has a personal "Junk" folder. I want to delete every
> email older than 30 days.
> 
> I know it's possible with find(8) but the problem is that I have to
> reconstruct every mailbox. This is very painfull if you have 100k
> mailboxes. 
> 
> Any idea how I can do that? Perhaps with sieve extension?
Look at cyr_expire or ipurge in the Cyrus distro.
-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University
    
    
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