I use for example ipurge -fd 30 user.*.SPAM to delete everything older than 30 days from all user's SPAM dir. and have never experienced any weird/unexpected behaviour or problems. Mike Eggleston wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Marten Lehmann might have said: > >> Hello, >> >> we have a virtual domain configuration and I want to remove all messages >> within the folder >> >> user/<any-userpart>@<any-domain>/Junk/* >> >> I don't want to mark old messages as deleted and expunge them, because >> then maybe I'm expunging messages, that haven't been flagged as deleted >> by me but the owner of the mailbox and aren't ment to be expunged at >> this moment. >> >> I have heard of cyr_expire and ipurge, but that information is several >> years old. >> >> What is the currently recommended way to auto-delete messages after a >> certain time (e.g. 60 days)? >> Which date is typically used for the deletion? The date of the delivery >> to Cyrus? >> Is a verbose output available (e.g. with the log of sender-address and >> subject of the deleted messages)? >> >> Btw.: We are using an older version of cyrus, 2.2.12 (as it comes with >> RHEL4) and we have no chance to update it at the moment. > > I use a combination of cyr_expire and a perl script that expunges any > message marked for deletion. > > Mike > ---- > 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 ---- 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