Delete old email after X days

Rostuse

Dears,

I have a server hosted with multiple domains, I was wondering if there is an option to delete old emails after X days for one of the domain names, not all of them.

Because I can not find that option here:
https://mailcow.github.io/mailcow-dockerized-docs/u_e-dovecot-expunge/

I will appreciate your help.

Thanks in advance

MAGIC

I guess something like
docker-compose exec dovecot-mailcow doveadm expunge -u '*@example.com' mailbox % savedbefore Xd

https://wiki.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Expunge

Rostuse

Thank you MAGIC I will give it a try.

pkernstock

If you want some examples, that’s what I’m using in my setup:

# Delete mails from junk which are read and older than 4 weeks
/usr/local/bin/docker-compose exec -T dovecot-mailcow doveadm expunge -A mailbox 'Junk' SEEN savedbefore 4w

# Delete mails from junk which are NOT read and older than 8 weeks
/usr/local/bin/docker-compose exec -T dovecot-mailcow doveadm expunge -A mailbox 'Junk' not SEEN savedbefore 8w

Rostuse

pkernstock Thanks mate.
I really appreaicte

Gaetan

Hello, I have a problem, when I enter this command in my console it does not delete emails, can you help me. I installed mailcow via docker via elestio platform.

I have been looking for solutions for several days but nothing works.

Thank you in advance for your help

docker-compose exec -T dovecot-mailcow doveadm expunge -A mailbox 'INBOX' SEEN savedbefore 2d

I also tried the solutions on this link but it doesn’t work

https://docs.mailcow.email/manual-guides/Dovecot/u_e-dovecot-expunge/

MAGIC

Do you get any errors?

Gaetan

MAGIC When I make the command I don’t have any error to display

yet in the mailbox I have 20000 emails waiting to be deleted

MAGIC

Not an expert with doveadm query, but it looks fine..
Could you try to use doveadm search to search the mails first? Maybe the query is not right somehow..

Gaetan

Here is the answer I got

root@mailcow-mp1gv-u4100:~# doveadm search ALL
doveadm(3325439): Error: Couldn’t drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting)