Auto-deletion of messages in Junk-folder after a certain time

[Mike Eggleston]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Marten Lehmann might have said:

> Hello,
> 
> we have a virtual domain configuration and I want to remove all messages 
> within the folder
> 
> user/<any-userpart>@<any-domain>/Junk/*
> 
> I don't want to mark old messages as deleted and expunge them, because 
> then maybe I'm expunging messages, that haven't been flagged as deleted 
> by me but the owner of the mailbox and aren't ment to be expunged at 
> this moment.
> 
> I have heard of cyr_expire and ipurge, but that information is several 
> years old.
> 
> What is the currently recommended way to auto-delete messages after a 
> certain time (e.g. 60 days)?
> Which date is typically used for the deletion? The date of the delivery 
> to Cyrus?
> Is a verbose output available (e.g. with the log of sender-address and 
> subject of the deleted messages)?
> 
> Btw.: We are using an older version of cyrus, 2.2.12 (as it comes with 
> RHEL4) and we have no chance to update it at the moment.

I use a combination of cyr_expire and a perl script that expunges any
message marked for deletion.

Mike