Re: [webmin-l] Feature Request

On 09/Mar/2017 23:07 John Hinton <[email protected]> wrote ..
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> 
> On 3/9/2017 11:27 PM, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> > On 08/Mar/2017 21:15 John Hinton <[email protected]> wrote ..
> >>
> >> On 3/8/2017 10:29 PM, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >> OK, so I'm not going crazy! I could have sworn I had seen that before.
> >> We use an anti-spam MX gateway, so needed to have anti-spam turned off
> >> on our systems, so I wasn't using those features. I flipped on Spam
> >> Filtering with one domain and found it. The next question... how does it
> >> know where to look for trash? Or does it look in all folders for like
> >> the 'T' flag? If so, this looks more perfect as it can be controlled on
> >> a per Virtualhost basis instead of system-wide.
> > It looks for any folder named "trash" in upper or lower case.
> >
> Under the "It would be nice" column... Is there a possibility that we 
> could get a place to add additional trashcan folder names? I find 
> Deleted Items, Deleted Messages are commonly used. I'd have to do a bit 
> of looking to actually find all varieties in use by all the clients out 
> there.
> 
> I suspect most of our trash is from Outlook which rarely is set to use 
> trash or Trash. Some versions of Outlook just redlined the deleted 
> messages within the Inbox or so it seemed. I'm never looked at the 
> folders on the server to figure out what it was doing. Leave it to 
> Microsoft and sadly, more often these days Apple to try to reinvent 
> things that don't need reinvention. What was wrong with Trash for trash? 
> Frustrating. Was it Outlook 2003 or 2007 that didn't have a trash 
> folder, did the redlining, but you could hide the redlined messages... 
> and that version hid purge under one of the toolbar menus. I don't think 
> most end users really know what purge does so never do it.
> 
> The big trash folder I found, about 80,000 emails and 15GB, was only 
> accessed by the user via SquirrelMail. It was set to show unread and 
> total, so it was right there in their face alongside SquirrelMail's 
> purge link. How did this grow so large? Ten years of trash collection.
> 
> I suppose it's off to doveadm expunge under a cron.

There is a way to customize the trash folder name Virtualmin looks for
(on the Virtualmin Configuration page), but it will find only one per user.

Also, each user can setup per-folder mail cleanup rules - just login to
port 20000 and click on Email Filters on the left.


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