I've misunderstood the man page. Thanks > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Andrew Morgan wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, AndrXs Tarallo wrote: > > > >> We need to clean certain mails from a mailbox. Specifically we are > >> trying to clean mails older than 30 days. So we execute (as cyrus) > >> this command: > >> > >> ipurge -d 30 username > >> > >> It returns almost inmediately but nothing happens and the mails remain > >> there. We didn't use -f flag because we were affraid of deleting all > >> mailboxes. > >> > >> Thanks in advance > > > > Have you tried using "ipurge -d 30 user.username"? > > Whoops, the manpage says: > > Ipurge by default only deletes mail below shared folders, which > means that mails in mailbox(es) below INBOX.* and user.* stay > untouched. Use the option -f to also delete mail in mailbox(es) > below these folders. > > So you'll have to use the -f option. > > Andy > > A/P Andres Tarallo WD&B Consultores Montevideo - Uruguay ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
