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Maria Arrea

2019-Mar-06 08:24 UTC

doveadm expunge recursive?

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<div>We are happy users of Dovecot 2.3.4.1 . We run a cronjob that deletes
from Trash messages older than 15 days, this is the command we run:</div>

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<div><em>/usr/bin/doveadm expunge -u $USER mailbox Trash savedbefore
15d</em></div>

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<div>But this commands does NOT delete folders inside Trash.
doveadm-expunge man page says nothing about recursive expunge. Maybe is not
implemented?</div>

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<div>We can not use doveadm mailbox delete, because has no search query
argument.  We could elaborate a complex doveadm-search query and with xargs feed
it do mailbox delete, but must be an easier way, how do you cope with old
folders in Trash?</div></div></body></html>

Aki Tuomi

2019-Mar-07 07:44 UTC

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doveadm expunge recursive?

On 6.3.2019 10.24, Maria Arrea via dovecot wrote:> We are happy users of Dovecot 2.3.4.1 . We run a cronjob that deletes
> from Trash messages older than 15 days, this is the command we run:
> ?
> //usr/bin/doveadm expunge -u $USER mailbox Trash savedbefore 15d/
> ?
> But this commands does NOT delete folders inside Trash.
> doveadm-expunge man page says nothing about recursive expunge. Maybe
> is not implemented?
> ?
> We can not use doveadm mailbox delete, because has no search query
> argument.? We could elaborate a complex doveadm-search query and with
> xargs feed it do mailbox delete, but must be an easier way, how do you
> cope with old folders in Trash?

Expunge only deletes mails. Just like IMAP EXPUNGE command. You need to
use mailbox delete to delete mailboxes.

Aki

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