cleaning up mailbox.

[Ken Murchison]

Andrzej Kwiatkowski wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I've got next question.
> 
> My boss want to add next feature to clients.
> He wants to take possibility to push some kind of
> button which in action remove all mails from mailbox which are older f.e
> 7 days.
> 
> I've read about popexpiretime, but my boss want to do this via
> configuration panel.
> 
> So maybe someone could write example IMAP session for this ?
> Or any other solutions ?

You'll probably want to do something like this in your client:

SEARCH BEFORE <date>
STORE <sequence from SEARCH response> +flags \deleted
EXPUNGE

You'll have to look at RFC 3501 for details.

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Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University