ipurge test mode? analysis by date

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> find is your friend here.
> man find
> Their is a lot of options about size and time.
> This will not give you the total size of email, but you can make the sum using
> some additional scripting.

No, that won't work.  Timestamps on the filesystem do not necessarily
correspond to the date/delivery-time of a message.

Since I couldn't find anything I'm working on a Python script to crawl
the mailstore over IMAP.

That nothing exists is surprising,  no one using Cyrus has a data
retention policy?

> Be careful if you use singleinstancestore: 1 in imapd.conf and the suitable
> configuration in your SMTP, some email delivered to multiple mailbox
> are stored only once on the filesystem. find will report any links to
> these emails
> and you will count them twice or more.

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