Automatically Clean Emails

[tgatellier]

Hello

I would like to empty my mailboxes.

Is there a way to automatically remove old emails ? If not is there a way to manually remove all the emails easily ?

I have 100+ mailboxes so complicated to connect to each one to empty every month

Thanks

Tristan

[girish]

@tgatellier Empty as in delete all the emails which are older than say 3 months or something like that?

[girish]

@tgatellier You can use doveadm expunge . There is no UI for this, so you have to SSH and run this like so:

docker exec -ti mail doveadm -D expunge  -u mail@domain.com mailbox Sent savedbefore 1w

The above deletes all mails in the Sent folder that were saved more than 1 week ago.

See https://doc.dovecot.org/3.0/man/doveadm-expunge.1/ and https://doc.dovecot.org/3.0/man/doveadm-search-query.7/#man-7-doveadm-search-query

[p44]

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[p44]

@tgatellier totally agree, I discussed in a previous post: need some UI to cleanup all trashed email from ALL mailboxes, or have feature like Gmail or similars 30 days delete after trash

[tgatellier]

Thanks for command line will use it and tell you, but an UI feature will be better for my non tech team

[tgatellier]

@girish Would be amazing to have this feature yes