Automated purge of deleted email items

[Ian Petersen]

My personal mail server (qmail) stores all my email in maildir format.
 I've set up an IMAP server (binc) on top of that.

In my scenario, deleted messages end up in $HOME/.maildir/Trash/cur if
they've been read, and they might end up in $HOME/.maildir/Trash/new
if they've not been read, but I can't confirm that bit.

Each message is a separate file so, if I wanted to accomplish the same
thing on my home server, I'd create a cronjob that used something like

find /home/*/.maildir/Trash/{new,cur} -type f -delete

possibly with some of the date modifiers to only remove files that are
more than N days old.  If your version of find doesn't support -delete
(I think it's fairly new) you can either use

find /home/*/.maildir/Trash/{new,cur} -type f -exec rm \{\} \;

or

find /home/*/.maildir/Trash/{new,cur} -type f | xargs rm

whichever you prefer.

Of course, if your mail store isn't in maildir format, then I have no idea.

Ian

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