cyr_expire and messages where Date: is in the future?

[David Carter]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Mike Eggleston wrote:

> Using spam assassin and sieve I have messages flagged as spam filed into
> user.*.spam folders. I also have a 'cyr_expire -E 1 -X 1' job running
> each morning and a 'cyradm mboxcfg expire user.*.spam expire 2' set on all
> spam folders. One of the oddities I'm seeing is where a spam message has a
> header of 'Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:16:17 -0800'. These messages are not
> expiring even though the messages may physically be months or a year old.

I believe that ipurge is the problem here, not cyr_expire. ipurge uses the 
Date: header unless you use the -X flag. Consequently a message with:

   Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:16:17 -0800

wouldn't be expunged until March.

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