I am looking for utilities to expunge old email from the mail boxes.
Currently, we delete a mail message, and it remains in the folder as
deleted. How do most people deal with this issue? The messages are never
actually removed. At this time, I am looking for a basic "cleaning" script
that would remove deleted messages once or twice a day...
Advise is appreciated!
Tony
At 12:57 PM 04/15/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>You could do this with any IMAP library in the language of your choice.
>I prefer Perl for quick scripts like this one, but it's by no means the
>only way to go.
>
>So a very simple approach would look like this in the IMAP commands
>exchanged between your program and Cyrus:
>
>* OK mail.cpicorp.com Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.2 server ready
>. login cyrus {cyrus password}
>. OK User logged in
>. LIST * *
>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "user.wayner"
>* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "user.wayner.Drafts"
>* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "user.wayner.Sent"
>* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "user.wayner.Trash"
>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "user.websurvey"
>* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "user.websurvey.Trash"
>* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "user.wendyc"
>* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "user.wendyc.Adrian"
>* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "user.wendyc.Sales Dogs"
>* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "user.wendyc.Sent"
>* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "user.wendyc.Trash"
>... and so on, Cyrus returns a list of all mailboxes here, have your
>script save them to an array of strings and then for each mailbox, you
>will need to give the cyrus user permissons to delete messages from the
>mailbox, then select the mailbox, and run a search something like this
>(check the IMAP syntax, I'm not 100% sure it's right - this should
>return the message numbers of all SEEN messages received before this
>year):
>. SEARCH SEEN NOT SINCE 1-Jan-2002
>
>Then you just set the deleted flag on these messages, expunge the
>mailbox, reset the mailbox's permissions, and move on to the next
>mailbox.
>
>-Jules
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