Deleting messages "marked for deletion" older than X days

[Kenneth Marshall]

In the manual page, the definition of the '-X' option seems to
do what you want:

      -X expunge-days
              Expunge  previously deleted messages older than expunge-days
              (when using the "delayed" expunge mode).  The default is
              0 (zero) days, which will expunge all previously deleted messages.

Ken


On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:53:31PM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote:
> Hi Ken,
> 
>  From the description it seems like cyr_expire will apply to every email 
> in a mailbox. I don't want to delete any regular emails other than the 
> ones already marked for deletion by an email client who is lacking a 
> decent purge feature.
> 
> 
> Gerard Beekmans
> IT Manager
> Achilles Media
> Tel: 403-678-1216 ext. 102
> Email: gbeekmans at achillesmedia.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Kenneth Marshall wrote:
> > I think that the cyr_expire command may be what you are searching
> > for.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:35:20PM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am looking for a way to run a daily script on the Cyrus IMAP server 
> >> that processes every user's mail folders and deletes every message 
> >> marked for deletion older than X days.
> >>
> >> I realize the proper way to do this is client-side and have the client 
> >> program purge/expunge the mailboxes periodically in some fashion.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately in the corporate world there are many clients who still 
> >> use old versions of Outlook that only marks a message for deletion and 
> >> will not automatically purge the folder.
> >>
> >> To force users to manually purge every single folder they have, one 
> >> folder at a time as some versions of Outlook can't do this recursively, 
> >> is not a feasible option. Users just stopped doing this because it 
> >> becomes too time consuming a task.
> >>
> >> So I'm looking for a server-side solution that analyzes every mail 
> >> folder on the system, finds marked messages older than X days and 
> >> purges/deletes them on the client's behalf.
> >>
> >> Some pointers are appreciated. I can write the scripts (shell, perl, 
> >> whatever) myself if need be, just need to know how to start going about 
> >> obtaining such a specific list of messages.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Gerard Beekmans
> >> IT Manager
> >> Achilles Media
> >> Tel: 403-678-1216 ext. 102
> >> Email: gbeekmans at achillesmedia.com
> >>
> >>
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