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

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

By: /cur mail - cPanel Forums

/cur mail - cPanel Forums — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:53:41 +0000

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By: dr-who

dr-who — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:48:16 +0000

moris:~# ./cleanup-maildir -n –age=60 delete –maildir-root=/home/vpopmail/domains/cnc.bg/antov/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./cleanup-maildir”, line 499, in
cleaner.clean(mode, dir, minAge)
File “./cleanup-maildir”, line 351, in clean
maildir = mailbox.Maildir(path, MaildirMessage)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/mailbox.py”, line 233, in __init__
os.mkdir(self._path, 0700)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/root/Maildir/.–maildir-root=/home/vpopmail/domains/cnc.bg/antov’
moris:~#

By: MikeBrum.com » Cleaning Up Maildir Directories

MikeBrum.com » Cleaning Up Maildir Directories — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:56:25 +0000

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By: John Peak

John Peak — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:15:43 +0000

acme–fixed. you da man. Thanks!!

By: Jayen

Jayen — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:00:45 +0000

Hi Petrus, I couldn’t manage to set wrapper

By: Petrus4

Petrus4 — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:08:47 +0000

This Script is great! work well on my Ubuntu postfix courier-imap server.
I am also interested in having the cleanup script run for all my users. JAYEN did you ever get a wrapper made to do this and would you be willing to share it?

I want to run
cleanup-maildir –age=120 –archive-folder=Archive –archive-hierarchy-depth=1 –maildir-root=’/home/username/Maildir’ archive ” for each my users and then have the new archive folders added to the subscribed imap folders list and the user and group permissions on the new archive folders be changed to the specific user and group so the folders can be accessed by each specific user.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Thanks,

Petrus4

By: Corrado Fiore

Corrado Fiore — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:56:15 +0000

Ok, found the trick: the cleanup script looks at the date on filesystem, not inside each message. So, if I copied a Maildir without keeping original modification datetimes, I would end up with the results above: all files seem like new to the script.

Kind regards,
Corrado Fiore

By: Corrado Fiore

Corrado Fiore — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:30:26 +0000

I’m trying it on a VPS with Python 2.5 and seems like even the modified version doesn’t recognize date of messages. For example:

$ /usr/local/bin/cleanup-maildir -n -v –age=30 –maildir-root=/var/spool/imap/test/Maildir archive ”
…
INFO:cleanup-maildir:Total messages: 102
INFO:cleanup-maildir:Affected messages: 0
INFO:cleanup-maildir:Untouched messages: 102

but I’m sure that Maildir contains also messages older than 30 days!

If that can help, messages are delivered into Maildir/new/ by Procmail and my IMAP server is Dovecot.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Corrado Fiore