delete messages from INBOX.Trash INBOX.Junk

[Robert Banz]

Going this same direction...  With our previous mail system, we used  
to chug through our users' Spam & Trash folders, and send them a  
weekly notification reminding them of the messages they had in these  
folders, and how many would be deleted in the next week.

Anyone done something similar with Cyrus?

-rob

On Sep 20, 2007, at 05:21, Paul Dekkers wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Vladi Lemurov wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 	Is there any way to delete old messages e.g. older than 30 days from
>> INBOX.Trash and INBOX.Junk mailboxes of all users in a proper  
>> "cyrus-way"?
>>
>
> You can use ipurge, and run it periodically from cyrus.conf. We  
> have for
> instance:
>
>   purgetrash    cmd="ipurge -d 14 -f user.%.Trash" at=0200
>
> (and a couple of others for the spam folder for instance) to clear the
> Trash folder of users for messages over two weeks old... people  
> tend to
> fill it up and never look at it again, this saves over 10G in our  
> case :-)
>
> You can run ipurge from the commandline too, as user cyrus. (E.g. sudo
> -u cyrus /path/to/ipurge)
>
> Paul
>
> ----
> Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/
> Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki
> List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
>