On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Spiro Harvey <spiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anyone here familiar with Cyrus IMAP and its util ipurge?
We'd like to set auto deletion of our users' spambox folders, but I'm a
bit paranoid about its functionality.
The main things that confuse me are from the man page:
"Ipurge deletes messages from the mailbox(es) specified by
mailbox-pattern"
with no indication as to what defines "mailbox-pattern"
Second:
"Ipurge by default only deletes mail below shared folders, which
means that mails in mail- box(es) below INBOX.* and user.* stay
untouched. Use the option -f to also delete mail in mailbox(es)
below these folders."
What's a "shared folder"?
OK, so the format of a Junk mail folder is:
user/spiro/Junk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and I've successfully done:
$ ipurge -f -d 90 user/spiro/Junk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Working on user/spiro/Junk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
total messages 21
total bytes 187742
Deleted messages 16
Deleted bytes 138324
Remaining messages 5
Remaining bytes 49418
however, without the -f, it did nothing, even though I was explicitly
supplying a folder. Clearly I misunderstand what the man page is trying
to tell me.
I'd like to set up a proper "pattern" to purge all spamboxes correctly
via the cyrus.conf, because at the moment, I've got an awk script that
generates a list of email addresses and produces a list in the format of
user/userid/Junk@domain. I could then go over that list and run an
ipurge for each one, but if anything happens that causes that list to
be corrupted, I'm afraid of deleting the wrong mail. or worse. :(
according to what I've gathered, the line:
purgespam cmd="ipurge -f -d 90 user/%/Junk@*" at=0430
should work when put in cyrus.conf's Events section, but I can't
confirm these wildcards. Some results on google just refer to * for the
mailbox name, but none seem to include the domain as part of the string.
Can anyone here shed some light?
Can't help much with ipurge. I never did like how it works. I have chosen a different approach using the cyradm mboxconfig command to set the expire option on each mailbox as needed. The 'expire' option is set-it-and-forget-it. Yet this approach lacks managability. There is no quick and easy way to survey all of your user mailboxes to check the expire option settings.
Jeff
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