On 20/02/10 16:53 -0800, Maria McKinley wrote: >I have a mailbox that I send spam to, and I have been meaning to set up >some filters, so that after a certain period of time, they get deleted. >However, I got distracted, and now the inbox is very large. I was >wondering if anyone has advice how to 1) get rid of all of the messages >currently in the inbox that were sent before a certain date, and 2) how >to set up a filter so that messages are moved to folders according to >date, and then folders are deleted after a certain date. Please make sure you have a good backup of your mailstore before performing any of the below. For 1), use ipurge. I have the following in my cyrus.conf on one of my servers (in the EVENTS section): purgetrash cmd="/usr/sbin/ipurge -f -d 14 */Trash" at=0301 Which purges all messages older than 14 days, in all users' Trash folders and runs every morning at 3:01am. See the man pages for ipurge and cyrus.conf for more details. Sieve filters only act in incoming messages at time of delivery, and to my knowledge can't be used to do 2). You could do what you're wanting in a roundabout way by renaming the mailbox in a periodic basis, recreating the original box, and deleting the rotated out box. For instance, you could run a script like this from crontab, once a month: #!/bin/sh cat $HOME/last-rotated.txt | grep -q `date +%m%y` if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then exit fi MONTH=`date +%m` echo "a01 delete user/jsmith/archive-$MONTH a02 rename user/jsmith/archive user/jsmith/archive-$MONTH a03 create user/jsmith/archive a04 logout" | imtest -m plain -a cyrus -w <secret> localhost date +%m%y > $HOME/last-rotated.txt -- Dan White ---- 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
