dovecot - Apr 2014 - Debugging doveadm expunge

Hi,

I'm a recent convert to dovecot, and in general it is all working fine.

However, I have a number of cron jobs set up to purge old messages from
mailboxes. These don't seem to be doing what I would expect.

Is there any way of debugging this process? Some way of seeing what messages
it's checking, and why each one matches or fails to match?

For example, I'm running this:

doveadm expunge -u andy mailbox "News Reports" savedbefore 90d

from the crontab of user 'andy'. I'd expect the specified folder to
only
contain 90 messages (I get one 'News Report' per day) but in actual fact
there are 1428 in there!

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Andy

Il 08/04/2014 12:47, Andy Hawkins ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a recent convert to dovecot, and in general it is all working fine.
>
> However, I have a number of cron jobs set up to purge old messages from
> mailboxes. These don't seem to be doing what I would expect.
>
> Is there any way of debugging this process? Some way of seeing what
messages
> it's checking, and why each one matches or fails to match?
>
> For example, I'm running this:
>
> doveadm expunge -u andy mailbox "News Reports" savedbefore 90d
>
Try with:

doveadm search -u andy mailbox "News Reports" before 90d

there is a difference between savedbefore and before, with "search" 
instead of "expunge" you can see the result witout delete you email.

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