On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 10:05 +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote:> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 05:09:53PM -0500, Kenneth Marshall wrote:> > In the manual page, the definition of the '-X' option seems to> > do what you want:> > > > -X expunge-days> > Expunge previously deleted messages older than expunge-days> > (when using the "delayed" expunge mode). The default is> > 0 (zero) days, which will expunge all previously deleted messages.> Now, what the -X option actually does is turns this into:> but the file is still on disk, just the index record has been moved> from the file cyrus.index to a new file cyrus.expunge. A week later:> Cleaned up (no file) - cyr_expire -X 7> The cyrus.expunge record and the actual spool file itself get deleted at> this point. Until then you can un-delete the record using the> "unexpunge" command in cyrus 2.3.X. I'm working on data-retention for my employer and I was wondering aboutthis. The wording is a bit vague in the manual page (we are now usingdeleted to mean multiple things...). I have assumed that "-X 7" meanspurge-the-message-seven-days-AFTER-IT-WAS-"EXPUNGED". Is this correct?I believe the manual page could also be read to meanpurge-the-message-AFTER-IT-WAS-"EXPUNGED"-AND-IS-OLDER-THAN-SEVEN-DAYS."OLDER-THAN-SEVEN-DAYS" meaning it was received more than seven daysago [equivalent to "ipurge -d 7 -X"]. > I think what the original requestor was actually looking for is a tool> that can run the "EXPUNGE" phase on a regular basis. As far as I'm> aware there's nothing that ships with Cyrus that can do it. If I was> writing something for the job I would make an admin IMAP connection to> Cyrus and just cycle through the folders calling 'EXPUNGE' on them.> Cheap and nasty, but it would do the trick. You can do this in any> language with a TCP library, though something with an IMAP interface> library would be nicer. I'd use Perl and Mail::IMAPTalk, but that's> just because that's what I already use! I'd do it in python. :) I've done some similar things for walking theentire mailstore and building statistics, etc... but it is REALLY slow!A server side API for making tools like cyr_expire would be really nice. ----Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twikiList Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
