Re: remove old trash from imap, server side
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 11:41 +0800, Chris Purves wrote:
> On 30/12/05, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what
> > > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older
> > > than six months.
> >
> > Is this for a personal system or an ISP/company/email-host?
>
> personal
>
> > If person system: it's *trash*, don't store old stuff in it!
>
> Well, I prefer to do it anyway, for personal reasons. ;-)
Tsk tsk. You'll be mighty peeved at yourself if you ever accidentally
set your MUA to "Empty trash on exit"...
> > If business, and you are telling users "Trash older than 180 days
> > will be automatically deleted", you should use the IMAP protocol
> > to do it. The mailing list for the imapd that you use would be
> > the place to ask the proper way to do it.
>
> I will do that.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA
If 1/2 of all US marriages end in divorce, and there are a good
number of 3rd, 4th, etc marriages, then more than 1/2 of all 1st
marriages will be permanent.
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