dovecot - Sep 2014 - Per-folder (per-mailbox) message expiration with control from client side — is it possible?

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 I'm migrating from ?old skool? solution with one mail client (MUA) on
one computer, which retrieves mail via POP3, sorts it and manages it
locally to installation when there are several MUAs on different
devices, accessing mail via IMAP4, and all sorting and management
should be server-side.

 Sorting is ?easy?: sieve. Here are some nuisance (like, if I want to
rename folder/mailbox I need to edit script manually. BTW, it looks
like that such thing could be done automagically, as language is very
simple and find all references to mailboxes is not too hard task), but
it works.

 But is here good solution for expiration? I have abut 50 folders
(mailboxes) and rules are very different for them. They are mostly
time-based (like "last 30 days"), but some folders are count-limited
("last 2000 messages") and some folders should have time limit but
non-read messages could not be deleted at all.

 Ok, Thunderbird almost could do it (it doesn't have ?don't remove
unread messages? option), but I don't want to have any meaningful
configuration in MUAs, as each of it could be non-active for long time.

 Only thing I could find about expiration in dovecot documentation is
"doveadm expunge" and helper "Expire" plugin, but it looks
like very
low-level solution for admins, it could not be managed from client
side without direct ssh access to server and it is, in general, very
inconvenient.

 Is here any better solution, maybe, 3rd party one?

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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov
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Am 14.09.2014 um 22:41 schrieb Lev Serebryakov:
> 
>  I'm migrating from ?old skool? solution with one mail client (MUA) on
> one computer, which retrieves mail via POP3, sorts it and manages it
> locally to installation when there are several MUAs on different
> devices, accessing mail via IMAP4, and all sorting and management
> should be server-side.
> 
>  Sorting is ?easy?: sieve. Here are some nuisance (like, if I want to
> rename folder/mailbox I need to edit script manually. BTW, it looks
> like that such thing could be done automagically, as language is very
> simple and find all references to mailboxes is not too hard task), but
> it works.
> 
>  But is here good solution for expiration? I have abut 50 folders
> (mailboxes) and rules are very different for them. They are mostly
> time-based (like "last 30 days"), but some folders are
count-limited
> ("last 2000 messages") and some folders should have time limit
but
> non-read messages could not be deleted at all.
> 
>  Ok, Thunderbird almost could do it (it doesn't have ?don't remove
> unread messages? option), but I don't want to have any meaningful
> configuration in MUAs, as each of it could be non-active for long time.
> 
>  Only thing I could find about expiration in dovecot documentation is
> "doveadm expunge" and helper "Expire" plugin, but it
looks like very
> low-level solution for admins, it could not be managed from client
> side without direct ssh access to server and it is, in general, very
> inconvenient.
> 
>  Is here any better solution, maybe, 3rd party one?

i am not sure what exact you searching for
if youre on linux try look here

http://www.athensfbc.com/imap_tools/details.html
http://imapsync.lamiral.info/

thunderbird also has plugins like

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/awesome-auto-archive/

however i would prefer doveadm expunge via ssh  or cron etc

you might also try external sieve plugin to execute doveadm expunge etc
via some parameter perhaps as global rule

> 
> 
Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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