On Fri, Jan 15, James B. Byrne wrote: > I run cyrus-imapd under CentOS-4.8 (a RedHat el4 clone). I am > trying to discover if there is any way to purge a user's INBOX of > old and over-sized messages without affecting the contents of any > subfolders thereof. > > I have looked at impurge as the mechanism. However,my reading of the > man page, and of online discussions relating to this matter, > indicate that in order for impurge to remove any mail from the INBOX > then the -f switch has to be passed. But, I also gather that > whenever the -f switch is used then ALL subfolders of the target > directory are purged recursively as well. > > This strikes me as a rather odd combination of attributes but I > cannot see any way to prevent recursion if the -f switch is used. > What is the recommended way to purge mail from a user's INBOX only > using criteria such as age and size? You are not the only one searching for a better control of what ipurge should delete. I created a feature request for that and submitted a patch to the cmu bugzilla: https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=3167 This is the link to the patch including documentation in the manpage: https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/attachment.cgi?id=1232 -- With best regards, Carsten Hoeger
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