Re: [webmin-l] Feature Request

"Jamie Cameron" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webmin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 07/Mar/2017 18:30 John Hinton <[email protected]> wrote ..
> Moving a bunch of virtualhost around lately, I ran across one email 
> account that had 80,000 emails in the trash. Since, I found a number of 
> accounts with 20, 30, 40,000 in the trash. So, I went back to look at 
> Mailbox Cleanup again. I wouldn't want to ever delete any messages from 
> a clients Inbox unless they requested it... but trash? I have run a 
> dovecot script to delete spam from spam folders. Anyway... my thought!
> 
> It would be great if Mailbox cleanup had a function to delete messages 
> older than X number for days from <a list of email folder taken from a 
> list that I generated>. I could add trash, Trash, Deleted Messages, 
> Deleted Items and on and on it goes. I guess the only tricky part would 
> be INBOX.Trash and INBOX.trash and INBOX.Deleted Messages... but I could 
> most likely find them to add.
> 
> So, far today, I deleted about 30 GB of trash from clients email boxes 
> after asking them if it was alright. I would be happy to make an 
> announcement that we are going to do this. Yeah, some versions of 
> Outlook hide 'purge' and I doubt most end users even know what purge 
> means. Heck, the one with 80K messages uses SquirrelMail and purge is 
> right there in your face? Go figure.
> 
> Or, I could set up a bunch of Dovecot crons to do this. :)

Hi John,

Virtualmin already has a feature to setup automatic trash clearing on
a per-domain basis, based on message count or age. It's on the Spam and
Virus Delivery page, on the left menu.

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