Em 14-03-2012 09:19, Timo Sirainen escreveu:
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 08:51 -0300, Marcio Merlone wrote:
Em 13-03-2012 15:58, Marcio Merlone escreveu:
Em 13-03-2012 13:49, Timo Sirainen escreveu:
A perfectly working solution would be to (upgrade to v2.x and) switch to sdbox or mdbox format with alt storage enabled, then you could simply do: doveadm altmove -A mailbox 'Archives*' all Should this command be run every time a new folder (.Archives.2012 for example) is created or can this be automated, something like instructing deliver to do this to any Archives* is created? In other words, to cron or not to cron? It's not deliver that creates it, it's the IMAP client. And it would I first though about deliver since this seems the guy who could do that, but don't matter.
have to be done when IMAP client copies mails there. But there's currently no easy way to automate that, so you'd need to do it in cron. Just imagine that:
protocol imap{ ... x_alternate_storage_always = Archives, Spam, Trash x_alternate_storage_size = 20MB x_alternate_storage_age = 1y ... }
The client (Thunderbird?) sends imap commands to dovecot create such folder or to move a message to such folder. Dovecot obeys and check the config to see if the folder in question is one of those listed on x_alternate_storage_always. If the folder is not on alternate storage yet, create/move it there and them proceed what was asked to do.
I imagine that an age based action would depend of a cron job in order to not overload the server each time it performs any imap command and check old messages age...
Another possibility could be to add a new feature (plugin) that always immediately saves mails in Archives* mailboxes to alt storage. I don't know if the duck is male, I want the egg! :)
I know nothing about the inner workings of dovecot, and very little about the outer working. A well designed and integrated plugin could be, but seems to be a nice core feature for dovecot, based on folder name, size or age.
Many thanks for your time. Please be kind considering those ideas, I am just a poor man's server admin. :)
Best regards.
-- *Marcio Merlone*