[Dovecot] Differences when expire plugin and cronjob?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jan 28, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Nicolas Letellier wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I would like to see the differnces between the expire plugin and a  
> cronjob which make a find/delete.
> Is there performances differences? What's the best to use?

find will go through all mailboxes while expire goes through only  
those mailboxes that actually have messages that need to be deleted.

> I use dovecot 1.1.8. Is expire plugin update the maildirsize and  
> other indexes files?

Yes. And find/delete doesn't of course.