Hi I'm currently prowling for some IMAP tools to help me maintain our mailboxes. I'd prefer "pure" IMAP, i.e. no messing with file system directly, but would settle for more crude ways if need be. Specifically I am looking for: - Expunge tool: Outlook does not seem to auto-expunge messages in any way shape or form. So I'd like to run a daily cron to expunge all mailboxes. - Quota helper: Some way to send a warning email once a day or so, saying "you're close to your quota limit, please delete some mail" or somesuch Granted, I could write these two from scratch - but why reinvent the wheel? Thanks Jen -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3237 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20070130/b012096d/attachment-0002.bin>
--On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:47 PM -0700 Jens Knoell <jens at surefoot.com> wrote:> I'm currently prowling for some IMAP tools to help me maintain our > mailboxes. I'd prefer "pure" IMAP, i.e. no messing with file system > directly, but would settle for more crude ways if need be.UW-IMAP came with a utility called mailtool that did that kind of thing. I recall that it could move messages around, but don't recall what, if any, other features it offered. It connected via IMAP to do its work.
Jens Knoell wrote:> HiHi Jens,> I'm currently prowling for some IMAP tools to help me maintain our > mailboxes. I'd prefer "pure" IMAP, i.e. no messing with file system > directly, but would settle for more crude ways if need be. > > Specifically I am looking for: > - Expunge tool: Outlook does not seem to auto-expunge messages in any > way shape or form. So I'd like to run a daily cron to expunge all > mailboxes. - Quota helper: Some way to send a warning email once a day or > so, saying "you're close to your quota limit, please delete some mail" or > somesuchIf you use Maildirs, you can use maildrop as your delivery agent, and use its '-w' option which will place a warning message into a user's mailbox when they are approaching their quota limit. The cone mail client (written by the author of Courier-IMAP) comes with a tool called mailtool (I think that's the name, but the name's not important). It's a full-featured IMAP client which you may be able to use against your Dovecot server to do a nightly clean-up of old messages, for example. You'd probably need to use Dovecot's "master user" feature, so that you can log into any user's account using this command-line tool. You can get both these packages from http://www.courier-mta.org/ -- Anand