I'm running Dovecot 1.1.3 on FreeBSD 7.0 with procmail 3.22 sorting the output of Spamassassin. Just for me and a few friends. I didn't like the ageing 'standard' IMAP implementation so I thought I'd give Dovecot a try and it's really impressive. However, I'm a complete newbie to its inner workings. Spamassassin is able to find plenty to chew on so the "Probable spam" mbox (note) fills up fast. I obviously want to zap the old stuff in there automatically. It seems to me that the expire plugin is the thing I need BUT reading the documentation: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire Leaves me to scared to try anything. It's all working and I don't want to break it or delete anyone's mail. The problem that the wiki isn't accurate to the version I'm running. For example /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool.sh doesn't exist. Okay, this isn't Linux, and there's something likely where I'd expect it on BSD (/usr/local/...) - but it's a binary, not a shell script. It may be a direct replacement AFAIK, but it may not. I've been reading the old mailing list about problems with 1.2 and this reinforces the feeling that the wiki is out-of-sync. Am I being paranoid? Possibly, but I don't want to be posting a "Help! I've wrecked my config and deleted all my friend's mail" type message. (Okay, I'd take a backup first). So could some kind person point me at the latest documentation? Thanks, Frank.
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 21:35 +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote:> I'm running Dovecot 1.1.3I'm pretty sure expire plugin is broken with this version. v1.1.17 had the last fixes to it.> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire > > Leaves me to scared to try anything. It's all working and I don't want to > break it or delete anyone's mail. The problem that the wiki isn't accurate > to the version I'm running. For example /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool.sh > doesn't exist.The wiki is written a bit badly there. The expire-tool.sh is included in the v1.2.x section in the wiki page. I'll try to clean it up a bit.> Am I being paranoid? Possibly, but I don't want to be posting a "Help! I've > wrecked my config and deleted all my friend's mail" type message. (Okay, I'd > take a backup first). So could some kind person point me at the latest > documentation?The problem has never been that expire plugin deletes mails too early. It's always been that it doesn't seem to delete anything. :) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20090715/5fcea9bc/attachment-0002.bin>
Timo Sirainen Wrote On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 21:35 +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote:> I'm running Dovecot 1.1.3I'm pretty sure expire plugin is broken with this version. v1.1.17 had the last fixes to it.> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire > > Leaves me to scared to try anything. It's all working and I don't want to > break it or delete anyone's mail. The problem that the wiki isn't accurate > to the version I'm running. For example/usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool.sh> doesn't exist.The wiki is written a bit badly there. The expire-tool.sh is included in the v1.2.x section in the wiki page. I'll try to clean it up a bit.> Am I being paranoid? Possibly, but I don't want to be posting a "Help!I've> wrecked my config and deleted all my friend's mail" type message. (Okay,I'd> take a backup first). So could some kind person point me at the latest > documentation?The problem has never been that expire plugin deletes mails too early. It's always been that it doesn't seem to delete anything. --------------------------- Many thanks I shall forget the expire plugin for now and worry about upgrading the whole system instead. Off to do some more reading.