Comments on: Cleanup Maildir folders (archive/delete old mails)

By: Topper

Topper — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:14:16 +0000

What can be a problem here:

# /usr/bin/cleanup-maildir -n -vv –age=90 –archive-folder=Archive –maildir-root=/backupimap/user/joro delete ”
DEBUG:cleanup-maildir:Mode is delete
DEBUG:cleanup-maildir:Cleaning up …
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/cleanup-maildir”, line 528, in ?
cleaner.clean(mode, dir, minAge)
File “/usr/bin/cleanup-maildir”, line 380, in clean
maildir = mailbox.Maildir(path, MaildirMessage)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.4/mailbox.py”, line 225, in __init__
boxes = [os.path.join(newdir, f)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/backupimap/user/joro/./new’

Python version 2.4.4

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:15:57 +0000

Tried with Age 1460 (4 Years), doesn’t work. The script doesn’t also not work with Age=300…. any solutions?

By: Damian

Damian — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:46:25 +0000

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./cleanup-maildir”, line 528, in
cleaner.clean(mode, dir, minAge)
File “./cleanup-maildir”, line 419, in clean
(fakeMsg, i, subFolder), msg)
File “./cleanup-maildir”, line 434, in log
subj = msgObj.getSubject()
File “./cleanup-maildir”, line 237, in getSubject
email.Header.decode_header(s)))
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.5/email/header.py”, line 93, in decode_header
dec = email.quoprimime.header_decode(encoded)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.5/email/quoprimime.py”, line 336, in header_decode
return re.sub(r’=\w{2}’, _unquote_match, s)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.5/re.py”, line 150, in sub
return _compile(pattern, 0).sub(repl, string, count)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.5/email/quoprimime.py”, line 324, in _unquote_match
return unquote(s)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.5/email/quoprimime.py”, line 106, in unquote
return chr(int(s[1:3], 16))
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 16: ‘za’

Any help?

By: Mark G

Mark G — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:02:16 +0000

@Albin Thulin

Thanks, your modified version worked a little better. Get many of these errors thou:

UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xc2 in position 111: ordinal not in range(128)

By: Zoltan Papp

Zoltan Papp — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:47:33 +0000

Hello,

i am a little new to linux scripting and I am trying to make a cron.job that runs for all users on all domains each night and deletes messages older than 365 days. I am stuck with this script that looks like this:

exec while read line; do
var="'"$line"'"
./cleanup-maildir –maildir-root='/var/vmail/'$i'/'$k'/Maildir/' –age=365 delete $var
done

Can you help me out, what am I doing wrong?

Thank you!

By: Dimitrios Karapiperis

Dimitrios Karapiperis — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:25:11 +0000

might be useful to archive recursively all the folders and their content under the specified maildir folder…why not?

By: Lewis

Lewis — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:53:55 +0000

oops, minor typo. should be find $i-*/cur/ on the second to last line

By: Lewis

Lewis — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:29:43 +0000

#!/bin/bash

# Archive monthly folders in the pattern YYYY-MM to the YYYY Maidlir after they are 31 days old.

MDIR=”$HOME/Maildir”
YEAR=`/usr/local/bin/gnudate -d “last month” ‘+%Y’`

for i in `find $MDIR -maxdepth 1 -name “.*$YEAR” | grep -v Archive`; do
find $i-* -type f -ctime +31 -exec mv {} $i/cur/ \;
done

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:53:57 +0000

I am looking for a tool to remove attachments from mail in a maildir and put them in a different location. Does anyone know of such a script?

By: claudio

claudio — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:28:28 +0000

I think this is the best solution here:
4 Jay Farschman
4th October 2007, 14:43
I’s use the find command to locate the (ctime) files over 7 days old and the pipe it through xargs rm… like this

find /tmp/jo -type f -ctime +7 | xargs rm

To test, replace the rm with ls -la so you can see the files and ages.

with this insight is easy to script the whole thing

thanks pal
Claudio