Hi, >> Being the filty perl programmer that I am, I would just make an admin >> IMAP connection to the server, LIST all mailboxes, regex match the ones >> I wanted, select them and process them. > > I used to do the same , But I found a client connection script too slow > & too heavy for my server with 40k mailboxes we have more than 40.000 mailboxes, too. But I'm not very enthusiastic to use ipurge. I'm afraid ipurge does something wrong (due to bugs or misconfiguration) and some unexpected messages are deleted. I wouldn't have a good feeling to tell customers "ipurge is always right" without having logs. My preferred solution would be to log each mailbox I'm deleting messages from and the From, Date and Subject-header of each, so in case of accidents, the customers could restore the messages somehow. I wouldn't mind a slow perl script that does its job one by one as long as I get logs. @Bron: I don't want to delete all messages, but all messages older than 60 days. Instead of flagging messages, I thing UIDEXPUNGE might be an option. Kind regards Marten Lehmann ---- 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
