Re: [SLUG] Paging IMAP gurus

[Steve Kowalik <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 10:44:45 +1000, James Gray uttered
> I'm running a Courier IMAP server with Postfix MTA for my own  
> personal network (with a handful of POP3 users).  The problem is that  
> I often use different mail clients.  Some support automatic archiving  
> (deleting), others don't.  So it got me thinking about server-side  
> solutions.
> 
We do this at $WORK, where we run a Perl script every 3 months that
kills mail that is older than 100 days. If you're familar with Perl,
just use Mail::IMAPClient, login, search for mail and then delete
it. It still uses a client, but it's a local client.

> Basically I'd like to run a script once a day that churns through my  
> personal IMAP folders and removes messages older than X days.  Some  
> folders I want to expire after 7 days, others 3 weeks, others 3  
> months.  I've already written the script to identify the messages but  
> currently just lists them.  Given that my IMAP store is maildir, is  
> there any problem with simply deleting the messages straight from the  
> maildir?  Or is there some sort of referential integrity checking  
> that I need to maintain within maildir?
> 
I'd suggest that you don't delete stuff from the Maildir directly, not
because of Maildir referential integrity, but because Courier might
well store stuff in the Maildir.

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					Steve
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