[Dovecot] dovecot expire doesn't work (?)

[LÉVAI Dániel]

Hi!

Anybody has this working? I mean, at least somebody has to use this 
expire plugin with BDB, no? :D
I think, maybe the problem is withing the plugin { expire = } setting; 
to be honest, I'm a little confused with this.
I have a maildir layout like this:
[..some dirs..]/$USER/Maildir/

Under the above directory, there are the users' subdirectories. So the 
subdirectory in question (spamassassin/SPAM), is 
"[..somedirs..]/$USER/Maildir/.spamassassin.SPAM/"

# ls -1a [..somedirs..]/$USER/Maildir/.spamassassin.SPAM/
./
../
cur/
dovecot-uidlist
dovecot.index
dovecot.index.cache
dovecot.index.log
maildirfolder
new/
tmp/

According to the WIKI page, I must write this to my dovecot.conf:
plugin {
	expire = spamassassin/SPAM 1
	expire_dict = proxy::expire
}

That is, if I want to expire the emails under the spamassassin/SPAM 
directory, after 1 day. Is this correct? I'm asking this because with 
this setup, the expire-tool does nothing... nothing in the logs either.
I've experimented with "expire = spamassassin.SPAM" and 
"expire=spamassassin/SPAM/*" too, but no luck. Could someone send me 
some working dovecot.conf, and setup, so I can diff it against mine? Or 
maybe just a little tossing in the right direction would be enough.

Thanks in advance!

Daniel


LÉVAI Dániel wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm using dovecot-1.1.5 and trying to make the expire plugin work.
> What I've configured in dovecot.conf is the following:
> 
> protocol imap,pop3,lda {
>     mail_plugins = [...] expire
> }
> 
> dict {
>     expire = db:/var/dovecot/expire/expire.db
> }
> 
> 
> plugin {
>   expire = spamassassin/SPAM 2 spamassassin/HAM 2
>   expire_dict = proxy::expire
> }
> 
> I have a sieve rule, to copy certain messages to my "spamassassin/SPAM" 
> folder. Then I want to expire those messages after 2 days (I think I've 
> configured that under the plugin{} section in dovecot.conf).
> So the actual message saving is done by the dovecot's deliver, but I 
> have the plugin loaded under the "protocol lda {}" section too.
> So I thought now I just have to wait 2 days, and run the expire-tool, 
> and then it will expire the messages.
> Now I have three messages dated back to 10.25, but running the 
> expire-tool outputs nothing.
> # dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool --test
> 
> Nothing in the logfiles, and nothing on the console. I have the 
> /var/dovecot/expire directory:
> # ls -la /var/dovecot/expire/
> total 1640
> drwx------  2 root  wheel       512 Oct 26 19:47:53 2008 ./
> drwxr-x---  3 root  wheel       512 Oct 27 07:57:42 2008 ../
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel     24576 Oct 27 13:00:01 2008 __db.001
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel     57344 Oct 27 13:00:01 2008 __db.002
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel    270336 Oct 27 13:00:01 2008 __db.003
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel     98304 Oct 27 13:00:01 2008 __db.004
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel     49152 Oct 27 13:00:01 2008 __db.005
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel     32768 Oct 26 19:47:37 2008 expire.db
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel  10485760 Oct 27 14:22:08 2008 log.0000000001
> 
> It contains the familiar BDB files, so I think it works, although the 
> expire.db's modify time is yesterday, but deliver saved some messages 
> also today to the spamassassin/SPAM folder.
> 
> What could be the problem? Am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Daniel
> 


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