autoexpunge clarification

Philon
2016-08-31T07:40:48Z

Hi Micheal,

the article is fine if you continue reading it to the next bullet points about
IMAP, POP3 and LMTP. In short words?

When the user quits and thus closes his mailbox/connection, Dovecot quickly
looks through the folders to clean up mails which are older then configured
days.

In the past there was a cron job which could do this every n hours, days, ? but
this setting does this automatically. Still I prefer using cron which gives me
more control over when this lookup happens.

User deinitialization is simply developer ?slang" for user closes
connection/quits his program.


Philon

> Am 30.08.2016 um 14:41 schrieb Michael Fox <news at mefox.org>:
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> I'm trying to understand autoexpunge, but the documentation is just not
> clear.  Hopefully, someone can clear up a few questions.
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> http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings says the following:
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> autoexpunge= : (v2.2.20+) Automatically at user deinitialization
> expunge all mails in this mailbox whose saved-timestamp is older than

> (e.g. autoexpunge=30d). This removes the need for expire plugin
> <http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire>  if you don't care that
the
> expunging may not always happen in time.
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> What does "at user deinitialization" mean?
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> What does "if you don't care that the expunging may not always
happen in
> time" mean?
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> I read the sub-bullets but they just aren't clear.  When exactly does
> autoexpunge occur?
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> Thanks,
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> Michael
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