Wesley, I looked at ipurge but I find it also happily deletes messages that weren't marked for deletion. It appears to delete everything older than X days, regardless of that \Deleted flag mentioned in another reply. Gerard Beekmans IT Manager Achilles Media Tel: 403-678-1216 ext. 102 Email: gbeekmans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Wesley Craig wrote: > cyr_expire -D and -X deal with delayed delete & expunge, > respectively. Neither will address message that the MUA hasn't > already deleted (in the case of folders) or expunged (in the case of > messages). > > The tool that is closest to the desired functionality is ipurge. In > order for ipurge to do what you're asking, Gerard, it would have to > examine whatever the "deleted" flag is for Outlook -- it varies by > MUA, some set a flag, some move messages to a trash folder, etc. > > :wes > > On 18 Aug 2008, at 18:09, 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. >> >>>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:35:20PM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote: >>>>> I am looking for a way to run a daily script on the Cyrus IMAP server >>>>> that processes every user's mail folders and deletes every message >>>>> marked for deletion older than X days. >>>>> >>>>> I realize the proper way to do this is client-side and have the >>>>> client >>>>> program purge/expunge the mailboxes periodically in some fashion. >>>>> >>>>> Unfortunately in the corporate world there are many clients who still >>>>> use old versions of Outlook that only marks a message for deletion >>>>> and >>>>> will not automatically purge the folder. >>>>> >>>>> To force users to manually purge every single folder they have, one >>>>> folder at a time as some versions of Outlook can't do this >>>>> recursively, >>>>> is not a feasible option. Users just stopped doing this because it >>>>> becomes too time consuming a task. >>>>> >>>>> So I'm looking for a server-side solution that analyzes every mail >>>>> folder on the system, finds marked messages older than X days and >>>>> purges/deletes them on the client's behalf. >>>>> >>>>> Some pointers are appreciated. I can write the scripts (shell, perl, >>>>> whatever) myself if need be, just need to know how to start going >>>>> about >>>>> obtaining such a specific list of messages. ---- 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
