similar to: Maildir - Need script to delete old unread messages

I'm trying to setup per user '+spam' delivery from amavis tags, so that each user gets any mails tagged as spam to 'spam' Maildir via +spam Dovecot lmtp delivery. after say 7 days I want to delete all spams older than 7 days, if I simply delete mail files from the file system, is that a 'bad thing' ? what is a proper way to do that, and scripts ? for

Hello List, I have a problem with the client Roundcube. Whenever I save a draft to the Folder INBOX.Drafts a old mail in my INBOX will be marked as unread. Here are the IMAP Logs from Roundcube and Dovecot debug logs. I have no idea why it happens. The IMAP protocol looks normal to me but as you can see in the second to last line in the Dovecot log Dovecot is changing the flag of an old E-Mail

So I?m looking at setting up some house-keeping for my dovecot mailboxes, specifically deleting messages in trash, spam etc., by deleting Seen messages older than X days. In order to protect against the edge case of a user reading a message right before the deletion task however I?d like to do something like the following: doveadm expunge -A OLD SEEN BEFORE 7d MAILBOX Trash doveadm flags -A

I have some users where I'd like to expunge their mail at different times. For example, I may have some users who I want to expunge everything from every folder at 30 days. Others where I'd like to expunge everything at 90 days. And still others where I only want to expunge mail from the Trash and Junk folders, and nowhere else. Is there a way to do some sort of lookup for this? Or

Timo, I'm working with a webmail client that periodically polls unread message counts for a list of folders. It currently does this by doing a LIST or LSUB and then iterating across all of the folders, running a SEARCH ALL UNSEEN, and counting the resulting UID list. Eventually I'd like to see it using RFC5819 LIST-EXTENDED, but that requires a fair bit of work. In the mean time I'm

Hello Timo, With dovecot 2.1.rc1 (056934abd2ef) there seems to be something wrong with virtual plugin mailbox search patterns. I'm using a virtual mailbox 'unread' with the following dovecot-virtual file $ cat dovecot-virtual * unseen For testing propose I created the following folders with each containing one unread message INBOX, INBOX/level1 and INBOX/level1/level2

Got sort of a strange problem on one email account. Everything works fine with Thunderbird/IMAP showing the correct unread message count. But on my DroidX smartphone one of my email accounts always shows one unread message, but I can't bring any unread messages up. It's like there's something there making it think there's a message when there isn't. The email client is K-9

I just set up dovecot on fedora core 3 with only pop3s protocol enabled. On my client machine, I use fetchmail to get the mail and then go through procmail and eventually ready by mutt. Everything seems to work fine, except that all new emails are marked old unread emails (i.e., marked with 'O' flag instead of 'N'). This is annoying because some open source lists are so large

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:

Hello, in addition to our mail system, we have some other systems which needs to know how many messages, and how many unread messages, a user has in his/her inbox (maildir). Currently, we have a mod_perl script which takes a mail address as input, and then traverses the maildir, and outputs the number of unread messages. Our challenge is that the maildirs are located on a SAN, and traversing a

I recently moved from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14 and consequently to dovecot 2.0.8. Since then, I have observed that messages are not being marked as read in all cases. The general behavior is: 1. Use my mail client to read all unseen messages. All mail folders show no messages unread. 2. Tell mail client to check for new mail. 3. Mail client now says that some folders have new mail (1 or more

Hello, I have migrated my mailbox server from Dovecot 2.1.7 (Debian 7) to Dovecot 2.3.4 (Debian 10) and have a crontab setup in root to daily delete all mails in the INBOX of a specific user which are older than 90 days like this: /usr/bin/doveadm expunge -u username\@domain.com mailbox INBOX savedbefore 90d Unfortunately this does not work anymore. I also tried to run the command manually as

I've been having a Dovecot/Thunderbird problem for about a year now and I need a fix. When I restart dovecot everything is fine but as the day progresses thing start deteriorating. When I empty my trash folder it doesn't empty. I get an indication that email has arrived in my inbox by the unread message count but can't access it. Messages arrive by appear to be empty. Folders that

SSD drives are very fast but expensive. So I have a crude idea that I'd like to see. May not be practical but would like to get some thoughts on it. Some new SSDs use SATA 3 (6gb/sec) with 355/mb/sec read speeds and 215MB/sec write. Put these in raid 0 and it screams! Can you imagine how fast that would be? What would be nice is if new email were on faster drives with old email being

hi, I spent time learning about virtual mailboxes. Is there some way to create dynamic virtual mailboxes? I mean, when I look at a mailbox, I want to see only unread messages or flagged messages in that mailbox.

I'd like to express a few things whilst I have the ear atleast a few folks. There once was a program called oddcast, and then edcast that you could use on linux to broadcast an OggFLAC encoded audio stream from jack. Sounds like something many folks would be interested in doing, but I haven't heard to much of a peep about it. At any rate, it had a a few issues legally and technical

Hi, I?m using several views like this: # cat Dovecot/dovecot-virtual :public/Archive/Mailing-Lists/Dovecot/* :public/Mailing-Lists/Dovecot all Before the recent changes read mail stayed in sync with the virtual folder. Now regardless whether mail is read in the original Folder or the virtual Folder, the flags are not synchronized anymore. Read mail is flagged unread in the corresponding

Strange problem and I'm not sure what's causing it. I'm using IMAP. A new message arives in the inbox. I see it displayed in the message list in bold. I click on the message and it looks like it's reading it by the previous message that was in the window remains and the new message is still bold (unread). However I can then click on an old message and then click on the new

Hi all, I've been bugged by this issue for a while, and while I see that the \UNSEEN flag is specified in the RFC to be reset once *any* client connects and looks at a mailbox, I was wondering if there's a way to change the behavior so that it's tracked on a per-client basis? Or if there's even some way to turn it off so that both my iPhone mail client and my main emacs viewmail

Hi everybody, I store user's mail in the old mbox format. I have many scripts to manage users that works fine with mbox. I use the very old Expire_mail.pl script to delete mail older than NN days for selected users (nightly cron job). Still works fine with my CentOS dovecot-2.0.16. Now I want move the mail to a sort of archive folder instead of simply deleting it from the inbox for some