On Tue, July 10, 2012 9:34 pm, Robert Schetterer wrote:

perhaps use daily cron with something like this

doveadm expunge -A mailbox Junk savedbefore 7d;

where am I going wrong ?

nothing gets removed:

pwd

/var/mail/vhosts/sbt.net.au/spam@sbt.net.au/.spam/cur

ls | wc

532     532   30884

doveadm expunge -u spam@sbt.net.au mailbox spam savedbefore 7day

ls | wc

532     532   30884

doveadm expunge -u spam@sbt.net.au mailbox spam savedbefore 7d

ls | wc

532 532 30884

doveadm expunge -u spam@sbt.net.au mailbox spam savedbefore 5d

ls | wc

532     532   30884

doveadm expunge -u spam@sbt.net.au mailbox spam savedbefore 4d

ls | wc

532     532   30884

doveadm expunge -u spam@sbt.net.au mailbox spam savedbefore 3d

ls | wc

532     532   30884

doveadm expunge -u spam@sbt.net.au mailbox spam savedbefore 2d

ls | wc

532     532   30884

doveadm expunge -u spam@sbt.net.au mailbox spam savedbefore 1d

ls | wc

532     532   30884

doveadm expunge -u spam@sbt.net.au mailbox spam savedbefore 1w

ls | wc

532     532   30884

doveadm expunge -u spam@sbt.net.au mailbox .spam savedbefore 1w

ls | wc

532     532   30884

ls -al -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 5921 Jul 9 21:55 1341834948.M445074P17475.geko.sbt.net.au,S=5921,W=6003:2, -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 3021 Jul 9 22:06 1341835577.M701903P17756.geko.sbt.net.au,S=3021,W=3125:2, ....

-- Voytek