dovecot - Nov 2005 - Retention Policy Feature(?)

I am currently using dovecot 0.99.14p1 on OpenBSD 3.8, mbox format,
procmail+sendmail MTA.  I subscribe to quite a few mailing lists and
currently have procmail sorting mail into the proper mboxes.  I was hoping
there would be some sort of retention policy feature built in to dovecot.  I
want to delete mail more than X days old from X folders.  I have combed the
documentation, list archives, and google.  Is this a feature? If so, where
can I find more information on it.  If this isn't a feature, is it in the
works or is it left out to keep things "slim line"?

Ted Strzalkowski

On Thursday 2005-November-17 14:36, Ted Strzalkowski
wrote:
> I am currently using dovecot 0.99.14p1 on OpenBSD 3.8, mbox format,
> procmail+sendmail MTA.  I subscribe to quite a few mailing lists and
> currently have procmail sorting mail into the proper mboxes.  I was
> hoping there would be some sort of retention policy feature built in
> to dovecot.  I want to delete mail more than X days old from X
With maildir, find(1), and a daily cron(1) job to delete files older 
than you wish to keep, this would be trivial to implement.

With mbox, I don't know. But I wouldn't want it as a dovecot feature, 
because it should be something under the user's control. Some are 
packrats who keep everything, and up to their disk quota that is fine!

Moving to maildir with procmail was easier than expected, contrary to 
what I had read on the Web. Precede folder names with a dot and end 
them with a slash ... IWFM.
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